Dr. Bruce Tefft, Central Intelligence Agency [ret.]
Dr. Bruce Tefft served 21 years in the CIA, including 17 years abroad, many as a CIA Chief of Station; and was a founding member of the CIA's Counter Terrorism Center in 1985. He has more than 30 years experience in foreign affairs, intelligence and security operations and counter-terrorism. In addition to extensive research and teaching of counter-terrorism methods and techniques, he has also developed course material for Bachelor and Master-level degree programs in Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism.  Dr. Tefft has been certified as an "expert witness" on terrorism issues for the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. and has testified in 8 cases.

Dr. Tefft has traveled more than 300,000 miles, training more than twelve thousand law enforcement officers and first responders in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Mexico. Since 9/11 he has served as the New York Police Department's Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence advisor. Dr. Tefft runs an international open source (OSINT) collection network which reviews more than 1,000 articles and messages per day from law enforcement, intelligence, military, academic and media sources and disseminates approximately 10% of these to 4,000 clients with appropriate commentary. Dr. Tefft is CRA-USA's Director of Threat Assessments and assists the company in providing world-wide terrorism prevention and emergency response training to first responders, law enforcement and security agencies and civil servants.

Bruce Tefft has his Master's degree in History and Doctorate in International Law from the University of Denver.

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