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Dr. Kathleen Kiernan, Director, is CEO of The Kiernan Group. She previously served as the assistant director for the Office of Strategic Intelligence and Information for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. While with the ATF, she was responsible for the design and implementation of an intelligence-led organizational strategy to mine and disseminate data related to explosives, firearms and illegal tobacco diversion.
Dr. Kiernan has been involved with the intelligence community for over a decade. She served as the ATF representative to the Counterterrorism Center at the CIA from 1993 to 1995. She is a council vice president for the American Society for Industrial Security - a preeminent world-wide private sector organization comprised of subject matter experts in technology, security, law enforcement, the military, and academia. She is also former chair of the Law Enforcement Working Group, an initiative to bridge the intelligence and law enforcement communities.
Dr. Kiernan is a senior member on the International Association of Chiefs of Police terrorism subcommittee, and an intelligence fellow and graduate of the FBI's National Executive Institute. She was recently named a senior fellow for the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute.
Dr. Kiernan currently leads a nationwide intelligence community project involving the active interdiction of weapons of mass destruction throughout the law enforcement and public safety communities. Additionally, she is leading a multi-disciplinary team bridging the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security under the auspices of the Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration program
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