Philip Wasielewski

Philip Wasielewski is Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare and a Senior Fellow in FPRI’s Eurasia Program. As a former paramilitary case officer with a 31-year career in the Directorate of Operations of the Central Intelligence Agency, he was a member of the first CIA team into Afghanistan in 2001, serving a three-year assignment on the National Security Council staff as Director for Intelligence and Covert Action programs. His CIA service paralleled a 30-year active and reserve Marine Corps career as an infantry officer, which included mobilizations for Afghanistan and Iraq. He holds a BA from Penn in international relations and European history, an MA from Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian Studies, and an MA in national security studies from the Army War College.