William F. Bundy, Ph.D.
Dr. Bundy served in the Navy for more than 30 years prior to returning to the Naval War College as a Center for Naval Warfare Studies (CNWS) faculty member. He has led warfighting concept development and advanced research projects that have been deployed in the Fleet and the Joint Force. Dr. Bundy created the initial concept of operations for Navy Ballistic Missile Defense, warfighting concepts for the Ohio Class Guided Missile Submarine and recently contributed to introduction of Distributed Lethality in the Navy. He has mentored more than 330 war college graduate research students.
Joseph Wippl
Joseph Wippl is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. He spent a 30 year career as an operations officer in the National Clandestine Service (NCS). Wippl has served overseas as an operations officer and operations manager in Bonn, West Germany; Guatemala City; Luxembourg; Madrid, Spain; Mexico City; Vienna, Austria; and Berlin, Germany. On assignments in CIA headquarters, he served as the Deputy Chief of Human Resources, as the Senior NCS representative to the Aldrich Ames Damage Assessment Team, as Chief of Europe Division and as the CIA’s Director of Congressional Affairs. Wippl has coordinated extensively with other members of the U.S. intelligence community. Prior to his arrival at Boston University, he occupied the Richard Helms Chair for Intelligence Collection in the NCS training program. Wippl has taught at BU since 2006, and speaks and writes widely on issues regarding intelligence.
Dr. Josephine Wolff
Josephine Wolff joined the faculty of The Fletcher School as an assistant professor of cybersecurity policy in 2019. Her research interests include international Internet governance, cyber-insurance, security responsibilities and liability of online intermediaries, government-funded programs for cybersecurity education and workforce development, and the legal, political, and economic consequences of cybersecurity incidents. Her book “You’ll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches” was published by MIT Press in 2018. Her writing on cybersecurity has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Wired. Prior to joining Fletcher, she was an assistant professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a fellow at the New America Cybersecurity Initiative and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She received received a Ph.D. in Engineering Systems and M.S. in Technology and Policy from MIT, and an A.B. in mathematics from Princeton. As a student, she also spent time at Microsoft, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Department of Defense.
CAPT Francis Molinari (RET)
Leads global cyber crisis management efforts that protect against and respond to cyber-attacks against Citi. Captain Molinari was the former Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff at USNWC, Director or Maritime Operations Assist and Assess Team, Director of Fleet Intelligence US FOURTHFLT, Deputy Chief of Intelligence USAFRICOM
Lt. Col Chris Dalton
Chris Dalton is a military professor for the Joint Military Operations course. He most recently was the technical advisor and co-developer of Naval Forces Africa exercise war game for senior leaders. He served in the military for 24 years as a supply office and completed numerous overseas deployments. He has co-authored two books on Libya and insurgencies in Africa.
Torey McMurdo
Torey McMurdo is a pre-doctoral fellow at the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute and a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University. Her research focuses on great powers’ use of information warfare to manipulate elections from 1946-present. Previously, she held positions at Stanford University, the U.S. Department of State and the Walt Disney Company. She also spent two years as a strategy consulting associate, reporting directly to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, advising leading global companies on the challenges and opportunities of operating in emerging markets.
Lt. Col. Carroll
Kevin Carroll reported to the White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of Homeland Security, the Hon. John F. Kelly, as Executive Director and Chief Counsel of the US Council on Transnational Organized Crime. He led a team from the Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, State, and Treasury Departments and the Intelligence Community implementing Executive Order 13773 by issuing reports to the President; advocating changes to the National Security Strategy; and recommending changes to cyber and intellectual property theft, fraud, racketeering, smuggling and trafficking laws, and recommending changes to intelligence and sanctions authorities. Kevin served in the Middle East and elsewhere as a CIA case officer. An Army and reserve officer for 24 years, Lieutenant Colonel Carroll served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, on the Joint Staff, and in Germany, Bosnia, Hungary, Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen. He serves as a senior counterintelligence adviser to the Army Staff, assisting that service’s insider threat program, and maintains Top Secret and Special Compartmented Information clearances. Kevin has written on various topics including anticorruption, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, intellectual property theft, terror finance and transnational crime, including for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, and has experience advocating for clients in the national media.
Col Frank Sobchak
Frank K. Sobchak began his career as a military intelligence officer and deployed to Kuwait in 1993. After completing special forces training, he was assigned to 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) where he commanded Operational Detachment Alphas (ODAs) through various missions, including a deployment to Kosovo. Following detachment command, he taught classes in world history and peacekeeping at the U.S. Military Academy. Colonel (COL) Sobchak then returned to 5th Group, commanding a company in Iraq during 2005. He was next assigned as a Congressional liaison for U.S. Special Operations Command. From 2011 to 2013, COL Sobchak commanded the U.S. Army Garrison in Natick, Massachusetts. After serving as a senior fellow for the Chief of Staff of the Army’s Operation IRAQI FREEDOM Study Group, he became the organization’s director in 2017. Colonel Sobchak has published articles in various journals and magazines, including Military Review, Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, Infantry, and Armor. He holds a bachelor’s degree in military history from the U.S. Military Academy and a master’s degree in Arab studies from Georgetown University.
Dr. Erik Hemberg
Dr. Hemberg esearch Scientist with ALFA Group at MIT-CSAIL. His work focuses on developing autonomous, proactive cyber defenses that are anticipatory and adapt to counter attacks. Novel methods for: cyber-hunting, automated methods of cyber-attack and defense scenarios in Software Defined and Peer-to-Peer Networks, models of networks and a proof-of-concept for how adversarial modeling can inform adaptive cyber security defenses and pro-actively design better network protocols.
LCDR Don Coates
LCDR Coates wors for the DIUx tem specializing in acquisition processes of advanced technology, 3D printing and its military uses.
Dr. Peter Dombrowski
Dr. Dombrowski is the Director of the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute and a professor of strategy in the Strategic and Operational Research Department. Previous positions include chair of the Strategic Research Department, editor of the Naval War College Review, co-editor of International Studies Quarterly, and associate professor of political science at Iowa State University. Dombrowski is the author of over 65 publications. His most recent book is, “The End of Grand Strategy: U.S. Maritime Operations in the 21st Century” (Cornell 2018). He received his B.A. from Williams College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
Glenn Carle
Mr. Carle was CIA Operations Officer, serving on four continents in a 23 year career, from 1985-2007. His last position was as Acting, then Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats, on the National Intelligence Council—the nation’s most senior position for strategic terrorism and transnational intelligence assessments, reporting directly to the President. Mr. Carle worked extensively on terrorism, European issues, Balkan issues, notably Kosovo and Yugoslavia, the Sandinista-Contra War, and Cold War issues in Europe. He Carle served for several years on detail to the Executive Office of the President, focusing on economic and trade issues. Mr. Carle is the author of The Interrogator, which details his involvement in and opposition to the Enhanced Interrogation Program during the “War on Terror,” and having led for several months the interrogation of one of the top members of al-Qa’ida. The Interrogator has been called “the best and most truthful firsthand account of life inside the CIA ever published.” Mr. Carle has spoken around the world about “enhanced interrogation,” leadership and ethics, the “War on Terror,” and issues of national security; and has appeared frequently on major news networks around the world.