Paul R. Pillar

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Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence
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Paul R. Pillar is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He had a 28-year career as an intelligence officer with the CIA and National Intelligence Council, and later was on the faculty of Georgetown University. His research and writing chiefly address U.S. national security policy, Middle Eastern affairs, and intelligence. | View Full Bio

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Contact

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202.797.6105 — Brookings Office of Communications

Resources

Expertise

  • Terrorism
  • intelligence
  • Middle East
  • South Asia
  • force and diplomacy
  • national security decision-making

Experience

Current Positions

  • Nonresident Senior Fellow, Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University
  • Contributing Editor, The National Interest

Past Positions

  • Visiting Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University
  • National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia
  • Federal Executive Fellow, The Brookings Institution
  • Deputy Chief, DCI Counterterrorist Center
  • Executive Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence
  • Chief of various analytic components, CIA

Education

  • A.B. Dartmouth College, Government

  • B.Phil. Oxford University, Politics
  • M.A. and Ph.D. Princeton University, Politics

Language Fluency

  • English

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