Amy McAuliffe
Advisory Council Member
Former executive leader, Central Intelligence Agency, Professor of the Practice and Fellow, University of Notre Dame, National security consultant
Amy McAuliffe, a former senior CIA official, has extensive experience in the nation’s most pressing foreign policy issues. She led Intelligence Community programs to analyze adversary weapons programs, assess the future of the Middle East, and fight terrorism. As Chair of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Director of the President’s Daily Brief, she championed analysis on US foreign policy challenges, including China as a geostrategic competitor to the US, Iran’s role in the Middle East, and Russia’s weapons arsenal.
In her senior assignments, Amy served as the Assistant Director of CIA for Weapons and Counterproliferation, Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism, and Director of the Office of Middle East and North African Analysis. In these positions, she led thousands of employees.
Ms. McAuliffe is an expert on geopolitical forecasting and adversary weapons and S&T programs. Amy revitalized the NIC’s production of National Intelligence Estimates, strategic foreign policy forecasts, on topics as diverse as the future of Ukraine and adversary weapons of mass destruction programs.
Amy has lectured at the Army War College, Harvard, Texas A&M, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Mississippi.
Ms. McAuliffe is a recipient of the Presidential Rank Award—the highest award for a civil servant—and the Langer Award, the CIA award for exceptional analytic leaders. The US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) awarded her the SOCOM medal for driving partnerships between the CIA and the US military.
Amy graduated from Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts in Government. She has a Master of Arts in International Affairs from American University and a Master of Arts in Military Studies from the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.
Technology is an integral component of US foreign policy and will be decisive in the strategic competition between the United States and China. In the twenty-first century and beyond, traditional military, economic, and diplomatic power will not be enough to ensure that the United States maintains its pre-eminent global role. We must integrate technological prowess and leadership into all of the elements of foreign policy power. Purdue’s focus on “tech diplomacy” is prescient.