Genevieve Lester
Adjunct Professor
Dr Genevieve Lester was the De Serio Chair of Strategic Intelligence at the US Army War College from 2016 until 2023. She is an expert on accountability, intelligence and decision-making, and covert action. She is also an Associate Fellow for Strategic Intelligence at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and on several editorial boards for major national security journals. She has held positions at Georgetown University, the National Defense University Joint Special Operations Master of Arts program, Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs), where she was an editor of the journal International Affairs, and the RAND Corporation. She holds a PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in International Economics/International Law and Organizations from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, and a BA in history from Carleton College. She was also a Fulbright Scholar at the Technical University in Berlin.