Aris Pappas

Formerly, Senior Director of the Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments. The Institute was founded in September 2004 to identify large-scale and difficult problems in the government environment and link them to Microsoft’s vast research and development potential. He works directly with executive levels throughout the Intelligence Community, with particular emphasis on support to analysis. Mr. Pappas has served on an advisory panel for the National Counter-terrorism Center and is currently a member of the Board of Advisors to the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA).

Mr. Pappas retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 2003 as a member of the Senior Intelligence Service with over 34 years of federal service. He also worked directly with the DHS Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection on intelligence integration and information management issues.

He has held numerous senior management positions and been awarded for work in both the analytic and clandestine services of the CIA. He established and served as the first Chief of the Homeland Security Staff in the office of the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Community Management, where he coordinated Intelligence Community participation with the Office of Homeland Security and the civil departments of the federal government.

Previously, Mr. Pappas was assigned to the FBI as Chief of Analysis and Warning at the National Infrastructure Protection Center. Working to establish an analytic capability within the Bureau, he managed the preparation of analytic assessments and oversaw the cyber watch unit in the FBI’s Strategic Information Operations Center.

Based on his earlier experience in military analysis and human intelligence operations, Mr. Pappas was assigned in 1993 to integrate two components, from the Directorates of Intelligence and Operations, to form a single special collection program. In 1975 he joined the CIA’s Strategic Evaluation Center as a Soviet military analyst and later was the last Chief of the Soviet Theater Forces Division.