Mark M. Lowenthal , President and CEO of the Intelligence & Security Academy, has nearly forty years of experience as an intelligence official in the executive and legislative branches of government and in the private sector. He has served in the Congressional Research Service, the State Department, the House Intelligence Committee as staff director, and the CIA, where he was the assistant director of central intelligence for analysis and production, and the vice chairman for evaluation on the National Intelligence Council. Lowenthal received his BA from Brooklyn College and his PhD in history from Harvard University. He is an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University; he was an… adjunct professor at Columbia University from 1993-2007.