Dr. Paul Pillar retired in 2005 from a 28-year career in the U.S. intelligence community, most recently serving as National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia. Earlier he served in analytical and managerial positions, including as chief of analytic units at the CIA covering portions of the Near East, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia. He has also headed the Assessments and Information Group of the DCI Counterterrorist Center, and from 1997 to 1999 was deputy chief of the center. He was a Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution in 1999-2000. Dr. Pillar is a retired officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and served on active duty in 1971-1973, and was a visiting professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University from 2005 to 2012.