Conference sponsored by:

Center for Biosecurity of UPMC

Deutsche Bank

The Contingency Planning Exchange

James L. Pavitt, Principal, The Scowcroft Group; former Deputy Director of Operations, CIA

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A Principal of The Scowcroft Group, James L. Pavitt draws on over 30 years of experience in the Intelligence Community to provide strategic advice and risk assessments to clients in the financial services, defense, information technology, homeland security, and counterterrorism fields, among others.

As the Deputy Director for Operations at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Mr. Pavitt managed CIA's globally deployed intelligence collection personnel and nearly half of CIA's multi-billion dollar budget. His responsibilities involved unparalleled cooperation with leaders of the intelligence and security communities in capitals throughout the world. As head of America's Clandestine Service, he led CIA's operational response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. As Chief of the CIA's Counterproliferation Division Mr. Pavitt managed and directed intelligence operations against sophisticated global proliferation networks. Working closely with the Department of Energy and its National Laboratories, he worked to identify new technologies required to identify and halt the proliferation of these weapons. He spent many years abroad as a member of the Clandestine Service.

Mr. Pavitt served as Senior Intelligence Advisor to President George H.W. Bush as a member of the National Security Council team from 1990 to 1993. He has had extensive experience assessing and representing critical national security issues at meetings with the President, Cabinet, Congress, U.S. policymakers, heads of foreign intelligence services and senior government officials around the globe. Early in his career, he served as a Legislative Assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives. He received a B.A. in History from University of Missouri and was a National Defense Education Act Fellow at Clark University. Mr. Pavitt is a recipient of CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Medal. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.