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Joseph DeTrani
Former Director of the National Counterproliferation Center

Ambassador DeTrani was President of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, a professional Think Tank. Previously, he was the Special envoy for Six Party Talks with North Korea and the U.S. Representative to the Korea Energy Development Organization (KEDO). He was an Associate Director of National Intelligence and Mission Manager for North Korea and the Director of National Counter Proliferation Center, while serving as a Special Adviser to the Director of National Intelligence. He is currently on the Board of Managers at Sandia National Laboratories.

Ambassador DeTrani served over two decades with the Central Intelligence Agency as a member of the Senior Intelligence Service. He was an officer in the Air Force and a distinguished military graduate at New York University (NYU). He attended NYU School of Law and Graduate School of Business Administration. He’s a fluent Mandarin, Chinese speaker and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has published extensively on issues related to North Korea, China and nuclear nonproliferation.

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