Dear Friend:

We are pleased to share with you that Joseph DeTrani has been named ICAS Fellow, effective immediately.

Ambassador DeTrani was President of Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security and before that, the President of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, a professional Think Tank. He was the U.S. Special Envoy for the Six-Party Talks with North Korea and the U.S. representative to the Korea Energy Development Organization. Joseph was an Associate Director of National Intelligence and Mission Manager for North Korea and the Director of the National Counter Proliferation Center, while also serving as a Special Adviser to the Director of National Intelligence.

Currently, Joseph is on the Board of Managers at Sandia National Laboratories and is a Senior Advisor at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Trustee at Marymount University and an adjunct Professor at Missouri State University’s Graduate Department of Defense and Strategic Studies.

Joseph served over two decades with the Central Intelligence Agency as a member of the Senior Executive Service, serving as an Executive Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence, Director of East Asia Operations, Director of European Operations, Director of the Crime and Narcotics Center and Director of the Office of Technical Services. Through the years, he has been an outspoken advocate for greater public-private collaboration on national security issues.

Ambassador DeTrani was an officer in the Air Force and a distinguished military graduate at New York University (NYU). He attended NYU School of Law and Graduate School of Business Administration. Joseph speaks Mandarin, Chinese and French and is a member of the National Committee on North Korea. He has published and spoken publicly on issues dealing with North Korea, China, Cyber security, nuclear nonproliferation and international organized crime.

Joseph spoke before the ICAS audience on the Hills twice; ICAS Fall Symposium 2013 and ICAS Winter Symposium 2015, respectively.

Thank you.