Joseph Helman
Distinguished Fellow , Co-Concentration Chair in Global Politics & Security and Adjunct Professor
Joseph Helman is a career intelligence officer and serves in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) where he is a member of the Senior National Intelligence Service. He has served in ODNI since 2005 and has over thirty years of national security experience in the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. From 2011-19 he served on the National Intelligence Council, and from 2014-19 as a National Intelligence Officer where he served as the principal subject matter expert to national security decision makers and led the Intelligence Community in the production of strategic analysis and providing analytic support to policymakers in a global functional area of intelligence.
Dr. Helman served as Director for Intelligence for the US Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism (Graham-Talent Commission, 2008), and as the National Intelligence Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 1995-2005 he provided analytic and programmatic support to the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense while in the private sector, and prior to his government service he worked on Middle East projects at the United States Institute of Peace.
Dr. Helman serves in the School of Foreign Service in the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) Program where he teaches courses on national and international security and foreign policy, and serves as co-Chair of the Global Politics & Security concentration. Previously, he served as Distinguished Adjunct Professor of the Practice of International Relations and Security Studies in the master's program in International Relations and in the Department of Politics at New York University (2009-23). He also taught as an adjunct professor in Security Policy Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs (2011-14) at George Washington University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.