Concurrent Breakout Sessions 9 Breakout Sessions 12

Robert Clark (Dr.) - former CIA Analyst and current consultant and author. Wrote Estimates and Prediction and Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach (now in 2^nd edition). Forthcoming book is Technical Collection for Intelligence. Retired as a Lt. Col. From the Air Force; flew in Vietnam. Has a S.B. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Illinois and a J.D. from George Washington University.

Michael Collier (Dr.) - teaches Homeland Security and Intelligence Studies in the Eastern Kentucky University College of Justice and Safety.  He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Florida International University (2000), an M.S. in Strategic Intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College (1986), and a B.S. from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1974).  In a 22-year U.S. Coast Guard career, he was a specialist in deepwater cutter operations and a sub-specialist in law enforcement and military intelligence.

Jeffrey Cooper - Vice President for Technology, SAIC Technical Fellow, and Chief Innovation Officer in the Intelligence, Security and Technology Group at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). He received his undergraduate and graduate education at The Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Cooper‘s recent focus has been largely on intelligence matters, with particular emphasis on analytic failures and methods to improve all-source analysis capabilities. He wrote “Curing Analytic Pathologies” published by CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence in December 2005.

Randy Dietering - Lead Instructor for the DNI “Analysis 101” course. He served more than three decades as a national security and intelligence professional, with half of his career on the White House staff. Mr. Deitering served four consecutive Presidents during his 15 years with the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), The White House (1987-2003). He received his White House Commission (Presidential appointment) as PFIAB Executive Director in 1998, having served as Acting Executive Director since 1995. He also was Deputy Executive Director and an Assistant Director of the Board. Mr. Deitering retired from CIA as a SIS-4 in 2006, after serving as Senior Officer-in-Residence, University of South Carolina Honors College. He has an MA in politics from New York University.

Shelagh Dorn - Senior Supervising Intelligence Analyst, New York State Intelligence Center, six years and the last sixteen years working in/with law enforcement. She studied Sociology at Cornell University (BA) and Criminal Justice at the University at Albany (MA; PhD in progress). A member of IALEIA’s Foundations of Intelligence Analysis Training (FIAT) Coordinating Committee and a FIAT instructor, she frequently participates in designing and revising state and national intelligence training curricula.