Dr. Roy GODSON
Emeritus Professor of Government, Georgetown University.
godsonr@georgetown.edu

Roy Godson has specialized in security studies and international relations at
Georgetown University for more than four decades.
As a scholar, he helped pioneer intelligence studies in American higher education,
editing the seven-volume series Intelligence Requirements for the 1980s and 1990s
and founding the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence. He also coauthored the
first academic study of Russian/Soviet active measures, Dezinformatsia, (1984),
and is the author of Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action and
Counterintelligence (2000).
He has directed, managed, and published, with other scholars and practitioners,
innovative studies on adapting America’s security paradigm, intelligence
dominance consistent with rule of law practices, and strategies for preventing and
countering global organized crime.
Dr. Godson has also served as a consultant to the U.S. National Security Council,
the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, and related agencies of the
U.S. government.