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Joseph Helman, PhD, BA, ‘84

Joseph Helman is a graduate of the »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ. He is a career intelligence officer and serves in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) where he is a member of the Senior National Intelligence Service. He has served in ODNI since 2005 and has over 30 years of national security experience in the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense.

Dr. Helman served on the National Intelligence Council (2011-19), and as a National Intelligence Officer where he served as the principal subject matter expert to national security decision makers and led the Intelligence Community in the production of strategic analysis and provided analytic support to policymakers in a global functional area of intelligence (2014-19). In 2008, he was Director for Intelligence for the US Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism as well as the National Intelligence Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Helman is a Distinguished Fellow, Adjunct Professor and co-chair of Global Politics & Security in the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (2019—present). Previously, he served as Distinguished Adjunct Professor of the Practice of International Relations and Security Studies in the International Relations Program at New York University (2009-23), and as an adjunct professor in Security Policy Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University (2011-14). He received a PhD in Political Science and MA in Middle Eastern Studies from George Washington University, as well as a BA, magna cum laude, in International Studies from USF. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.