Kevin O’Connell is President and CEO of Innovative Analytics and Training, LLC, a “sources and methods” company designed to improve the quality of analysis and decision-making for government and commercial clients. He is the former director of the Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis (CIRA) and Vice President for Intelligence Community Programs within Defense Group Incorporated. His professional interests include national security decision-making, intelligence and intelligence policy issues, and the policy, security, and market issues related to remote sensing. Mr. O’Connell has served on a number of senior government panels, including a DHS information policy board and a DARPA-NGA panel. He is the former Chairman of NOAA’s Federal Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES) and previously served as the staff Director of the Independent Commission on the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) (1999-2000). Mr. O’Connell served as the first Director of RAND’s Intelligence Policy Center (2001-2004) during almost a decade at RAND.
Mr. O’Connell joined the Department of Defense in November 1982, and served in various positions as a senior staff officer and intelligence analyst. In 1986, he joined the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research as a research analyst. In 1990, he was assigned as the Senior Analyst in the White House Situation Room, National Security Council, and later served as a Special Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs. From 1993-1995, Mr. O’Connell served on the Community Management Staff of the Director of Central Intelligence, where he was responsible for assessing non-traditional intelligence activities, including the DCI’s Openness initiative. Mr. O’Connell then spent almost ten years with RAND in both research and managerial capacities.
Mr. O’Connell’s recent activities have included intelligence research assessments on issues related to collection, analysis, open source, and intelligence-sharing issues. He has also led research efforts on the market and security issues associated with commercial remote sensing. He has lectured and taught extensively about intelligence at the RAND Graduate School and Georgetown University.
Mr. O’Connell received a Sustained Superior Performance Award form the U.S. National Security Advisor for his work in the White House Situation Room. He has received a Distinguished Speaker Award from the Department of Defense. He also received the Outstanding Service Award from the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in 2002.
Mr. O’Connell has authored a number of papers and monographs on various aspects of intelligence and commercial remote sensing. Recent writings cover the role of science and technology in transforming U.S. intelligence, a look at how to compare intelligence services, and an approach toward maintaining an “information edge” through improved intelligence. His edited volume, entitled “Commercial Observation Satellites: At the Leading Edge of Global Transparency,” was published in April 2000 by RAND and ASPRS. He is currently finishing a monograph entitled “Recasting Open Source within U.S. Intelligence” funded by the IBM Center for Business of Government.
Hugo Teufel III was appointed Chief Privacy Officer of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security by Secretary Michael Chertoff on July 23, 2006. In this capacity and pursuant to Section 222 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, Teufel has primary responsibility for privacy policy at the Department, to include: assuring that the technologies used by the Department to protect the United States sustain, and do not erode, privacy protections relating to the use, collection, and disclosure of personal information; assuring that the Department complies with fair information practices as set out in the Privacy Act of 1974; conducting privacy impact assessments of proposed rules at the Department; evaluating legislative and regulatory proposals involving collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by the Federal Government; and preparing an annual report to Congress on the activities of the Department that affect privacy.
Further, Teufel serves as the Department's Chief Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Officer. Teufel's responsibilities as Chief FOIA Officer include assuring consistent and appropriate Department-wide statutory compliance and harmonized program and policy implementation.
Before joining the Privacy Office, Teufel served as the first Associate General Counsel for General Law at the Department of Homeland Security. Previously, Teufel served as the Associate Solicitor for General Law at the Department of the Interior. In each position, Teufel oversaw the provision of legal advice and counsel to a cabinet-level agency on privacy and FOIA matters. Before joining the Administration, Teufel practiced law at Hall and Evans, in Denver, Colorado; served as Deputy Solicitor General for the State of Colorado; was an associate at McKenna & Cuneo, in Denver, Colorado; and was a clerk to Chief Judge Loren A. Smith of the U.S. Claims Court.
Teufel graduated from the Washington College of Law of the American University and was the Senior Articles Editor of The Administrative Law Journal. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College. He is a member of the bars of Colorado and Maryland (inactive). He is married and has a daughter.
Jonathan Winer is the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Law Enforcement. He represents domestic and foreign clients on regulatory and enforcement matters as well as on a wide range of government affairs issues, including data protection and management, information security and privacy. His practice also extends to a range of issues pertaining to sanctions, money laundering, and national security law.
In the area of financial services, Mr. Winer counsels companies in such areas as anti-money laundering, data security, and electronic payments, including complying with USA Patriot Act, Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) regulations and with state regulatory and licensing requirements, as well as with enforcement actions. His clients include domestic and foreign banks, mutual funds, payment system companies, credit card operators, providers of stored value cards, investment managers, insurance companies, and money service businesses.
In the area of privacy, he provides strategic guidance and compliance solutions to companies faced with managing domestic and foreign regulation of cross-border transmissions of customer data, employee data, and e-mail, including the legal issues associated with data security and breaches. On homeland security, his work extends to the legal issues associated with disaster recovery. His expertise also includes providing guidance on federal and state lobbying and campaign finance regulation, and on dealing with compliance and enforcement actions pertaining to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
At the State Department, Mr. Winer was one of the architects of U.S. international policy and strategies in financial services regulation and enforcement. He led U.S. negotiations on these and related issues with the European Union and the Organization of American States, and bilaterally with China, Cyprus, Hungary, Israel, Lebanon, Russia, Thailand, and numerous countries in Latin America, Southeast Asia, Central Europe, and Africa. Previously, he served for ten years as chief counsel and principal legislative assistant to Senator John F. Kerry, handling and drafting legislation pertaining to financial regulation. He also conducted a series of Congressional investigations, including the U.S. Senate’s investigation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
Mr. Winer serves as a Member of the Atlantic Council Working Group on Terrorism and on the Steering Committee of the Transnational Threats Initiative of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He received his J.D. in 1981 from New York University School of Law and his B.A. in 1976 from Yale University. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and the District of Columbia Bar.
Dr. Kobrin has served as President of the Academy of International Business, Chair of the International Division of the Academy of Management, and the Fulbright Awards Disciplinary Advisory Committee in Business Administration. He is active in Executive Education, currently serving as Academic Director of the Shanghai Municipal Government Executive Development Program. In addition, he was a Fellow of the World Economic Forum from 1994 to 2007, and a Reporter for the 2003 Annual Meeting.