About
AT A GLANCE:
Senior National Intelligence Service, ODNI
Adjunct Professor, Co-Chair of Global Politics and Security, Georgetown University
RESEARCH AREAS:
• Intelligence
• International Relations
• Middle East
• National Security
Biography:
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 over twenty-five years of national security experience in the Intelligence
Community and Department of Defense. From 2011-19 he served on the National Intelligence
Council, and from 2014-19 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 providing analytic support to
policymakers in a global functional area of intelligence.
Dr. Helman served as Director for Intelligence for the US Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, and as the National Intelligence Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 1995-2005 he provided analytic and programmatic support to the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense while in the private sector, and prior to his government service, he worked on Middle East projects at the United States Institute of Peace.
Dr. Helman serves at Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service as a Distinguished
Fellow, Adjunct Professor, and co-Chair of Global Politics and Security in the Master
of Science in Foreign Service Program (2019-present). Previously, he served as Distinguished
Adjunct Professor of the Practice of International Relations and Security Studies
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 is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.