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THOMAS DOWLING

Intelligence Lead Chair

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Tom served in eight countries ranging from Tunisia to Mongolia during  his 30 year career in the Foreign Service.  While most of his career was spent working in the Middle East or regional issues, he also spent three years as State Department representative and eventually deputy head of delegation to the US-Soviet Nuclear Testing Talks. (NTT).   At NTT, he was the US co-chair of the US-Soviet working group that produced new protocols to the Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the Treaty on Peaceful Nuclear Explosions.  In his final years at State, he was acting director and deputy director of North Africa, Near East and South Asia analysis in its Bureau of Intelligence and Research.   After retirement, he was a professional staff member of the 9-11 Commission working on the origins of Al Qaeda.  From 1998 to 2015, Tom also was a faculty member of the National Intelligence University created and taught over 50 courses on the Middle East, Islam in the Modern World,  Conflict and, Operational Capability Analysis. 

Tom is an honors graduate in political science from the City University of New York, holds a Master of Public Administration from Syracuse University and earned a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence Analysis from what is now the National Intelligence University.  He has spoken at a range of institutions including delivering a paper on the obstacles American analysts face in understanding the Middle East at the 2010 World Conference on Middle East Studies in Barcelona.   He is the author of a chapter on Iranian lessons learned from US actions in Iraq and Afghanistan in a volume due for publication later this year. 

Tom is an avid amateur military historian  with a deep interest in the birth and early years of US military intelligence.  He greatly enjoys teaching and mentoring students including chairing the thesis efforts of 53 National Intelligence University students to successful completion. 

He holds the National Intelligence Medal, the Secretary of State’s Career Achievement Medal and a variety of other awards including the  Office of the Historian, Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Admiral Nimitz Prize for Archival Research.

 

 

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