Mike Dempsey (intelligence)

Michael P. Dempsey is a former acting Director of National Intelligence, serving from January 20, 2017 to March 15, 2017.[1][2]

Mike Dempsey
Director of National Intelligence
Acting
In office
January 20, 2017 – March 15, 2017
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byJames Clapper
Succeeded byDan Coats
Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Intelligence Integration
In office
August 1, 2014 – March 15, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Donald Trump
Personal details
EducationSiena College (BA)
State University of New York, Albany (MA)
Johns Hopkins University (MPA)
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service United States Army
Years of service1986-1990
Unit101st Airborne Division

Biography

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Previously, Dempsey served as the deputy director of national intelligence and President Obama's primary intelligence briefer from 2014 to 2017. In this role, he led the integration of the US intelligence community's 16 agencies. Dempsey also regularly participated in National Security Council, Principal, and Deputy Committee meetings and presented congressional testimony.

Dempsey is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Formerly CFR's National Intelligence Fellow, Dempsey published 45 articles in more than a dozen publications, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg, CNN, WIRED, Harvard Business Review, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

Dempsey is currently vice president of government affairs for space, cyber, and intelligence at Northrop Grumman. He is also a non-resident research scholar at Columbia University.

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Leadership". www.dni.gov. Archived from the original on 2017-01-28. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
  2. ^ "Deputy DNI for Intelligence Integration". www.dni.gov. Archived from the original on 2017-02-03. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
Government offices
Preceded by Director of National Intelligence
Acting

2017
Succeeded by