Doug Wise

Douglas retired from CIA in 2016 as the Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. At DIA, Doug was the Chief Operating Officer for a 20,000 employee, global defense enterprise supporting senior Defense and National policymakers and the war fighting commands. Prior to his assignment at DIA, Doug served nearly thirty years with CIA’s Clandestine Service. He had the privilege of leading several of the Agency’s most important components at CIA Headquarters and in the field. In the course of multiple field assignments, Doug served four times as a Chief of Station, including a tour as a Chief of Station in a war-zone location that was then the largest field station in the Agency’s history. He was also the CIA’s Chief of Operational Training, and served as a senior leader in two of CIA’s largest multi-agency centers, the Counterterrorism Center and the Cyber Intelligence Center. He served multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in assignments in Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, South Asia and East Asia. He currently serves on a number of corporate boards, provides management and leadership coaching and mentoring to the leadership teams of large corporations, high net worth clients, a DOE laboratory and teaches a course at the University of New Mexico.