Philip Mudd
Philip Mudd
Philip Mudd joined Oxford Analytica as Senior Global Advisor in 2010 after a distinguished career with the US government.
He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1985 as an analyst specialising in South Asia and then the Middle East. In 1992, he was assigned to the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center and then served on the National Intelligence Council as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia. He went on to manage Iraq analysis at the CIA. Mr Mudd began a policy assignment at the White House in early 2001, detailed from the CIA to serve as the Director for Gulf Affairs on the White House National Security Council. 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.
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.
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