Dr. Lorne Teitelbaum has over 34 years of experience in the U.S. Intelligence Community and currently works for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as Professor of Practice at the National Intelligence University, teaching courses in:
• Intelligence collection
• National security policy
• Intelligence Community leadership and management
Prior to this role, in 2024 he completed a two-year joint duty assignment as the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Intelligence and National Security at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
He has worked in the Executive Office of the President of the United States, supporting the White House as the National Security Council Director for Technology Interoperability. Before his detail to the NSC, he spent three years as the senior speechwriter for the Director of National Intelligence and Principal Deputy Director.
Dr. Teitelbaum began his career in 1991 at the Central Intelligence Agency and then took a position as a Doctoral Fellow at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, working on classified projects for Intelligence Community clients while earning his doctorate in public policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He has led analytic studies for the Directors of the National Reconnaissance Office and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency that made recommendations to improve GEOINT and SIGINT collection and analysis operations. As an employee of the MITRE Corporation assigned to the National Counterterrorism Center, he supported the National Security Council with strategic assessments of the impact and effectiveness of whole-of-government counterterrorism strategies, plans, and operations. He left MITRE to serve as professional staff on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, where he led the first-ever Senate effort to catalog and analyze intelligence collection systems and activities across all five intelligence disciplines.
Lorne Teitelbaum holds an undergraduate degree in political science from Columbia University and a master's degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His doctoral dissertation, The Impact of the Information Revolution on Policymakers' Use of Intelligence Analysis, was published by the RAND Corporation in 2005.
