Event: CNA National Security Seminar Series – Mar 22

March 22, 2012

March 22, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. — Former senior US Government counterterrorism analyst, Philip Mudd, will discuss the future of al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic fundamentalist movements in the Middle East at the CNA National Security Seminar.

Philip Mudd joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1985 as an analyst specializing in South Asia and then the Middle East. He left after the September 11 attacks for a short assignment as the CIA member of the small diplomatic team that helped piece together a new government for Afghanistan. He returned to the CIA in early 2002 to become second-in-charge of counterterrorism analysis in the Counterterrorist Center and was promoted to the position of Deputy Director of the Center in 2003, serving there until 2005. On the establishment of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Security Branch in 2005, he served as the Branch’s first deputy director, and later became the FBI’s Senior Intelligence Adviser. He retired from the US government in 2010. He is a Senior Global Advisor with Oxford Analytica.

Mr. Mudd is the recipient of the highest US government awards for the excellence of his analysis and has appeared widely in the media as an expert commentator on terrorist issues.