Amy Mcauliffe

• Visiting Distinguished Professor of the Practice, University of Notre Dame

Amy McAuliffe is a visiting distinguished professor of the practice in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

A former senior CIA official, McAuliffe has extensive experience in the nation's most pressing intelligence and foreign policy issues. She has been a leader in Intelligence Community programs to analyze and combat adversary weapons of mass destruction and advanced conventional weapons, to track emerging technologies with weapons and national security implications, and to fight terrorism.

As chair of the National Intelligence Council - the Intelligence Community's strategic analytic unit - director of the President's Daily Brief, and director of the CIA's Middle East Analytic Unit, she led analysis on the gamut of U.S. foreign policy challenges, including China as a geostrategic competitor to the U.S., Iran's role in conflicts in the Middle East and China's and Russia's weapons arsenals.

McAuliffe's senior assignments at the CIA include serving as the assistant director of the CIA for weapons and counterproliferation, deputy assistant director for counterterrorism and director of the Office of Middle East and North African Analysis. She established and then co-led the CIA unit that assesses the measures of effectiveness of agency programs. In these positions, she led thousands of employees and budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars.

McAuliffe is known for her leadership. She mentored hundreds of officers formally and informally, established a leadership shadowing program and helped countless officers achieve senior leadership ranks as managers and senior analysts. Her officers praised her frequent and varied workforce segment meetings as models of effective workforce engagement. When she recently announced her retirement from federal service, she was flooded with emails, cards, and visits from officers from the CIA, the larger intelligence community and the U.S. military.

McAuliffe is also a recognized expert on adversary science, technology and weapons issues, as well as the craft of strategic analysis and forecasting. Known to challenge the conventional wisdom, McAuliffe revitalized the National Intelligence Council's production of National Intelligence Estimates - strategic forecasts of international developments relevant to U.S. foreign policy - and increased President's Daily Brief articles from agencies outside of the CIA. She led new and policy-relevant analysis on topics as diverse as Iran's nuclear program, the status of ISIS worldwide, and Chinese and Russian quantum computing programs.

McAuliffe has a passion for developing students, the next generation of American leaders. She is a mentor through the University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Women of Impact Program. In addition, Ms. McAuliffe has mentored students from the Keough School and Notre Dame's International Security Center. She has lectured on intelligence and national security issues in a range of Notre Dame classes, including Global Challenges to the National Security of the United States. She has been a keynote speaker at Notre Dame's D.C. Symposium and the Jack Kelly and Gail Weiss Lecture Series. She has lectured on global hot spots, the role of intelligence in policymaking, the future of nuclear proliferation, and warning in intelligence analysis at the Army War College, Harvard, Texas A&M and the University of Mississippi.

As she embarks on her second career, McAuliffe is excited to serve as a professor of the practice in the Keough School and as a Notre Dame International Security Center Fellow. She also is a principal at Tachyon-Insights, a national security consulting firm.

McAuliffe has received several prestigious awards. She is a recipient of a Presidential Rank Award - the highest award given to a civil servant - and the Langer Award, the seminal CIA award for analysts and leaders in the analytic field. She is also a two-time recipient of the CIA Director's Award and was awarded the US Special Operations Command medal for leading partnerships between the CIA and the Department of Defense.

McAuliffe graduated from Notre Dame cum laude with a bachelor of arts in government. She has a master of arts in international affairs from American University and a master of arts in military studies from the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, where she was a distinguished graduate.

• –present Visiting Distinguished Professor of the Practice, University of Notre Dame

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