Speakers
Culture in National Security, International Security, Law Enforcement, and Irregular Warfare
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Michael T. Flynn graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1981 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in Military Intelligence. His first assignment was as a paratrooper of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Since then, he has served in a variety of command and staff positions to include, Commander, 313th Military Intelligence Battalion and G2, 82nd Airborne Division; G2, 18th Airborne Corps, CJ2, CJTF-180 Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan; Commander, 111th Military Intelligence Brigade at the Army's Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Director of Intelligence, Joint Special Operations Command with duty in OEF and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF); Director of Intelligence, United States Central Command with duty in OEF and OIF; Director of Intelligence, the Joint Staff; Director of Intelligence, International Security Assistance Force-Afghanistan and US Forces-Afghanistan and Special Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff, G2. He most recently served as the Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Partner Engagement before becoming the 18th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency on 24 July 2012.
Lieutenant General Flynn's other assignments include multiple tours at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he deployed with the 82nd Airborne Division as a platoon leader for Operation URGENT FURY in Grenada, and as Chief of Joint War Plans for JTF-180 UPHOLD DEMOCRACY in Haiti. He also served with the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and as the Senior Observer/Controller for Intelligence at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
Lieutenant General Flynn holds an undergraduate degree in Management Science from the University of Rhode Island and holds three graduate degrees: a Master of Business Administration in Telecommunications from Golden Gate University, San Francisco; a Master of Military Arts and Sciences from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and a Master of National Security and Strategic Studies from the United States Naval War College. He also holds an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from The Institute of World Politics, Washington, D.C.
Lieutenant General Flynn is a graduate of the Army's Intelligence Officer Basic, Advanced, and Electronic Warfare Courses; the Combined Armed Services Staff Course; the United States Army Command and General Staff College and School of Advanced Military Studies; and the United States Naval War College.
His awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters), Legion of Merit (with Oak Leaf Cluster), Bronze Star Medal (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters), Meritorious Service Medal (with Silver Oak Leaf Cluster), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal (with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters), the NATO Service Medal, and several service and campaign ribbons. Lieutenant General Flynn also has earned the Ranger Tab and Master Parachutist Badge, and the Joint Staff Identification Badge.
Paul Ekman is a world-renowned psychologist and pioneer in cross-cultural facial expressions and body movements. After earning his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Adelphi University, he served for two years as a Clinical Psychology Officer in the U.S. Army. From 1960 to 2004, Dr. Ekman worked at Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, funded primarily by the National Institute of Mental Health to study emotion, facial expressions, and deceit.
Articles reporting on Dr. Ekman’s work have appeared in Time Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Psychology Today, The New Yorker and others, both American and foreign. Numerous articles about his work have also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and other national newspapers. He has appeared on 48 Hours, Dateline, Good Morning America, 20/20, Larry King, Oprah, Johnny Carson and many other TV programs. He has also been featured on various public television programs such as News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and Bill Moyers’ The Truth About Lying. The Fox show “Lie to Me” (2009-2011) was based on Dr. Ekman’s work.
Dr. Ekman is co-author of Emotion in the Human Face (1971), Unmasking the Face (1975), Facial Action Coding System (1978), editor of Darwin and Facial Expression (1973), co-editor of Handbook of Methods in Nonverbal Behavior Research (1982), Approaches to Emotion (1984), The Nature of Emotion (1994), What the Face Reveals (1997), and author of Face of Man (1980), Telling Lies (1985, paperback, 1986, second edition, 1992, third edition, 2001, 4th edition 2008), Why Kids Lie (1989, paperback 1991), Emotions Revealed (2003), New Edition (2009) Telling Lies, Dalai Lama-Emotional Awareness (2008) and New Edition Emotions Revealed (2007) . He is the editor of the third edition (1998) and the fourth edition (2009) of Charles Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1998). He has published more than 100 articles.
Jeannie L. Johnson, Utah State University
Jeannie L. Johnson worked within the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence as a member of the Balkan Task Force from 1998-1999. She rotated to the State Department just prior to our 1999 military engagement in Serbia, and was sent to assist as a Foreign Service Officer in Embassy Zagreb.
Ms. Johnson uses her background in practical politics to teach Political Science at Utah State University. She specializes in cultural analysis of political and security issues and teaches a wide range of social science courses.
Her primary research interest, Strategic Culture, examines the role of national and organizational cultures on the formation of security policy. Hired in 2006 by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency through the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Ms. Johnson participated in the formation of an extensive Strategic Culture curriculum and has since edited a volume on the same topic, Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Culturally Based Insights into Comparative National Security Policymaking. She continues to work with members of the intelligence community and Department of Defense in order to improve cultural research methods and analysis. A cultural research methodology devised with co-author Matt Berrett was featured in CIA’s June 2011 edition of Studies in Intelligence.PLENARY SPEAKERS
EJ Kimball, an attorney specializing in Islamic law, has worked with groups with differing perspectives on Islam in order to gain broad perspective on Islamic law, extremism, and related threats and non-threats. As the former Foreign Policy Counsel to a U.S. Congresswoman, he led the U.S. House of Representatives Anti-Terrorism Caucus in 2007-2008, and regularly provided one-on-one briefings to Members of Congress, U.S. Government officials, U.S. military leaders, and corporate executives. Throughout his career, Mr. Kimball has managed teams of professionals and researchers; prepared reports, briefings, and Congressional testimonies; and has served as a consultant on matters related to Islamic law and on domestic national security threats.
Mr. Kimball is a licensed member of the State Bar of Massachusetts and of the District of Columbia. He earned his Master's degree in International Affairs from American University, law degree from Western New England College School of Law, and Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Boston University. He also earned a diploma in Islamic Studies from the Fanar, Qatar Islamic Cultural Center, led by Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, and is active within the American-Muslim community. He currently serves as the Director of Islamic Law Programs for Cultural Intelligence Institute, bringing his global perspective and bi-partisan experience to lead projects including a comparative analysis of Islamic law, and a compilation of Islamic terms and concepts based on original Islamic documents.
Mr. Spitaletta is a Major in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve currently assigned to the Joint Staff J7 Deputy Director for Joint and Coalition Warfighting as an Observer/Trainer. Prior to that he was assigned to to the 4th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company (ANGLICO) where he deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In civilian life, Mr. Spitaletta is a researcher at The Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Franklin & Marshall College, and Master's degrees in Human Factors from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Applied Experimental Psychology from Catholic University, where he is currently a doctoral candidate. He also holds a graduate certificate from Stanford University's Summer Institute for Political Psychology.
TRAINER
Mr. Davidson is a retired Chief Warrant Officer 4, Military Intelligence Corps, United States Army. He has served overseas in Vietnam, Germany, Panama, and Bosnia. His last active duty assignment was with the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO), Fort Leavenworth, KS. In 2002, Mr. Davidson founded and led the FMSO Border Security Team. While with the Team, he produced the Daily Open Source Border Report. In addition, he wrote more than 300 Open Source Analyses concerning Mexican drug cartels and Mexican military and police forces. His awards include Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, two Army Commendation Medals, and the Army Achievement Medal.
Upon retirement, Mr. Davidson worked simultaneously with the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and with the University of Connecticut at New Haven (UNH). At UTEP, he began the Open Source Research Center and taught two open source classes. For UNH, he worked with the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups. He and the students at both universities produced the Daily Border News Report (DBNR) and the Summary of Open Source Information (SOSI) which was distributed DOD, DOJ, USBP, FBI, HIDTA, and other local and state agencies.SPECIAL PRESENTATION
SPEAKER
Michael Burnham will graduate from Utah State University in May 2013 with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and International Studies. His primary interests include identity politics, ethnic conflict, nationalism, and security studies. This past summer, he served as an intern for the U.S. Department of State at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Mr. Burnham earned recognition as Cultural Intelligence Institute's Intern of the Year in 2011 for his research on Internet culture and its connection with terrorism and violent crime. His current research compares the narratives found in ethnic conflicts with those of U.S. partisan political groups. He will attend graduate school beginning Fall 2013.
PRESENTATION SPEAKERS
Arizona State University
Buttram, Clifford
University of Phoenix
Catino, Martin
American Military University
Cohen, Adam
Arizona State University
Corman, Steven R.
Arizona State University
Crossett, Chuck
Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory
Davis, Jeffrey
ProSol
Hess, Julius
Bundeswehr Institute of Social Sciences, Germany
LeFebvre, Rebecca
Kennesaw State University
Lemieux, Anthony F.
Georgia State University
de Leon, Justin
University of Delaware
Meyer, Kaitlin K.
Arizona State University
Mottaleb, Ayman
U.S. Naval Academy
Nardulli, Peter F.
Cline Center for Democracy, University of Illinois
Newton, Summer
Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory
Oteng, Emmanuel
African Prisons Project, Uganda
Ram, Sunil
American Military University, Canada
Stephens, Sicily
Norwich University
Venturelli, Shalini
American University
