2025 NYC Symposium | September 9th Speakers

Dave Ecklund
Emergency Management & Public Order ISSU Lead; FIFA 2026, Toronto Police Service
Dave Ecklund is a Superintendent with the Toronto Police Service. Dave is in his 30th year with the TPS and has worked in various divisions and units throughout his career including Major Crime, Intelligence Services, Provincial Biker Enforcement Unit, CIB, Homicide Squad, Strategy Management and has held the position of Executive Officer for West Field Command.
Dave was promoted to Inspector in November 2020 where he was assigned to 55 Division in the Beaches area of Toronto. In the spring of 2022, Dave was transferred to the Emergency Management and Public Order Unit as the 2IC. In August 2025, Dave was promoted to the rank of Superintendent.
Dave is an accredited Public Order Unit Commander and Critical Incident Commander. He is currently seconded as the Lead for the Toronto Integrated Safety and Security Unit for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Richard Esposito
CEO, RoundHouse Strategies; Ex NYPD, NBC
Richard Esposito, CEO of RoundHouse Strategies and former NYPD Deputy Commissioner, is a corporate strategist with expertise in reputation management, crisis communication, and intellectual property defense. His career spans 35 years in journalism and public affairs.
Esposito has held key positions such as Senior Executive Producer of Investigations at NBC News and Deputy Commissioner for Public Information and Strategic Communications at the NYPD. In the latter role, he managed one of the nation’s largest public affairs offices and developed communication strategies to rebuild public trust during times of protest and the “Defund the Police” movement.
Esposito provides expertise to the network and its affiliates. He has won numerous awards, including five Emmys, Pulitzer Prize, and a George Polk Award. He has authored three non-fiction books, with his latest being a biography of journalist Jimmy Breslin, published in 2024.
His client base includes global entertainment corporations, brand licensing companies, public figures, law firms, and financial executives. Esposito offers advisory services in litigation support, conflict resolution, C-Suite counsel, reputation management, and media strategy execution.
With his extensive background in journalism, public affairs, and strategic communication, Esposito brings valuable expertise to both public and private sector clients navigating complex communication challenges.
Esposito is on the Board of Advisors to the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators and is an associate member of the Leadership in Counterterrorism Alumni Association.

John Eversole
EVP, Chief Security Officer, Madison Square Garden; Head of Enterprise Technology
John Eversole is the Executive Vice President and Chief Security Officer for the MSG family of companies (MSGE, MSGS, and Sphere Co.), focused on delivering live entertainment and sports events for today and the future. He is responsible for helping to advance MSG’s goal of delivering unique and compelling guest experiences across its portfolio of venues and entertainment properties.
John is also currently the Chief Information Officer, delivering next-generation technology for all of our iconic venues, and he oversees the MSG Aviation and Travel teams.
MSG Entertainment’s collection of venues includes Madison Square Garden Arena, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, Beacon Theatre, and The Chicago Theatre.
Sphere Co. consists of our next-generation venue, The MSG Sphere, our original content studio in Burbank, CA, and the MSG Network. MSG Entertainment also owns entertainment brands such as the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes.
MSG Sports comprises our sports teams, the NY Knicks and Rangers, as well as the two G League teams. John oversees team security for all these assets.
Mr. Eversole oversees the development of cybersecurity, investigations, executive security, threat intelligence, venue security, and combined security excellence for all of MSG’s interests.
This includes identifying investment and partnership opportunities with companies utilizing security technologies to redefine how fans, artists, and athletes engage and connect.
Mr. Eversole is a seasoned security and business leader with years of experience building and advancing security teams across government and the private sector. Before joining MSG in 2018, John held security leadership roles with Macquarie Bank, Symantec, Oracle, and the Department of Defense, where he built the Executive Protection details, Insider Threat, and Physical Security programs from the ground up.
Mr. Eversole is a retired Army reservist with the US Army Criminal Investigation Division (USACID) and served for 26.5 years of combined active duty service in the US Marine Corps and US Army Reserves.

Frank Fetchet
Chief Operating Officer, VOICES; Honorary Member, LinCT-AA
Frank joined the VOICES team in 2008 as a full-time volunteer. He serves as VOICES Chief Operating Officer and in this role oversees all legal agreements, fundraising, administration, and general operations. He also serves as ex officio VOICES board member.
Frank retired from IBM in 2005 after a career of nearly 33 years. He held a variety of sales and executive positions including Global Client Director and Vice President, Alliances in the Computer Services Industry. Following his retirement from IBM, he established Fetchet Consulting LLC which helped firms with their route-to-market and distribution strategies.
Frank resides in New Canaan, CT with Mary, his wife of more than 50 years. He graduated from Youngstown State University and was an IBM Certified Client Director, having participated in the Harvard Executive Program. Frank and Mary have three sons, Wes, Chris - and Brad, who perished at the age of 24 on 9/11.

Mary Fetchet, LCSW
Executive Director, VOICES; Member, INVICTM and LinCT-AA
Mary Fetchet is the Founding Director and President of Voices Center for Resilience (VOICES), formerly Voices of September 11th, an organization she co-founded following the death of her 24 year old son Brad in the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Her unique background as a mother of a victim along with 29 years of expertise as a clinical social worker, influenced VOICES creation of a new paradigm in providing long-term support services that promote mental health care and resilience. Using social work practices, she developed a wide array of innovative programs that provide continuity of care and promote resilience in the lives of those impacted. VOICES has served tens-of-thousands of victims’ families, survivors, responders, and families of those who have died of 9/11-related illnesses.
Ms. Fetchet is equally committed to leveraging VOICES over two decades of expertise to assist communities in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from other tragedies. Working collaboratively with public-private partnerships in the United States and abroad, she shares lessons learned, provides training and conducts research. More recently she is creating VOICES Community Preparedness Training, A Victim-Centered Approach to Prepare for, Respond to, and Recover from Tragedy, a two-day training for community stakeholders that will be launched in September, 2023.
A strong advocate for victims’ rights and mental health care for victims’ families, responders and survivors, Ms. Fetchet provides a unique perspective on the long-term needs of those impacted by tragedy. As an advocate for public policy reforms to make the country safer, she was instrumental in advocating for the establishment of the 9/11 Commission which led to sweeping government intelligence reforms and testified on five occasions before the United States Congress and the 9/11 Commission. Ms. Fetchet has served on dozens of advisory boards including the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, INVICTM, the Family Steering Committee for the Establishment of the 9/11 Commission, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Ms. Fetchet is a co-author of several publications based on research findings from, “Investigating the Long-term Impact of Bereavement due to Terrorism.” As a pioneer in preparing communities, she led the creation of Preparing for After: How to Help Victims of Mass Violence and VOICES of Experience: Helping Communities Heal After Traumatic Events.
A 1994 graduate of Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW), Ms. Fetchet has received numerous awards for her work, including the induction into the Hall of Fame at Columbia University School of Social Work, ABC News Person of the Year, and NBC News Making a Difference.

Karie Gibson, Psy.D., LP
Unit Chief, FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit-1
Dr. Karie Gibson has been a Special Agent with the FBI for over 18 years and currently serves as the Unit Chief for the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit-1 (BAU-1), Behavioral Threat Assessment Center (BTAC). BTAC is a national-level, multi-agency, multi-disciplinary Task Force focused on the prevention of terrorism and targeted violence through the application of behaviorally-based operational support, training and research for local, state, federal, and international law enforcement partners.
BTAC routinely completes threat assessments, threat management strategies, statement analysis, interview and interrogation strategies, prosecutorial strategies, media strategies, and unknown offender profiles. Dr. Gibson served as a Supervisory Special Agent/Profiler at BAU-1 for nearly seven years prior to being promoted to Unit Chief three years ago. Prior to becoming an agent with the FBI, Dr. Gibson was and continues to be a licensed clinical psychologist. She was an officer in the United States Air Force (USAF) where for four years she worked as a psychologist conducting therapy and psychological assessments for military members and their families. After the USAF, Dr. Gibson was a Forensic Evaluator for the State of Washington for one year before leaving to join the FBI.
As a Forensic Evaluator, Dr. Gibson completed court ordered evaluations such as competency to stand trial, mental state at time of offense, and civil commitment evaluations. Dr. Gibson earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Psychology from the University of Minnesota, Morris in 1997; a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in psychological assessment from the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology in 2000; and a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) degree in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in forensics from the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology in 2002.

John Hart
Public Safety Consultant, Assistant Chief Intel & Counterterrorism, NYPD (Retired)
Retired Assistant Chief John Hart served over thirty-one years in the NYPD with extensive command, operational, and investigative experience. Chief Hart last served as the Executive Officer of the NYPD Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau.
Previous assignments include the role of Commanding Officer of the Intelligence Division, which encompasses the Public Security Section, Criminal Intelligence Section, and the Intelligence Operations and Analysis Section. He also served as the Commanding Officer of the Public Security Section.
Chief Hart was also the Commanding Officer of the 17th, 46th, and Midtown North NYPD police precincts. His large-scale operational experience includes overseeing countless high-profile events in NYC, such as Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter protests, the 2015 Papal visit, the 2016 Presidential Election, and several United Nations General Assemblies.
Chief Hart is a 2017 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School Senior Leaders in State and Local Government Seminar and a 2013 graduate of the Columbia University Police Management Institute. Additionally, he served for three years as the Program Manager for the International Pearls in Policing Program and served on the New York State Governor's Domestic Terrorism Task Force.

John Miller
CNN Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst
John J. Miller is the Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst for CNN. He is a veteran award-winning journalist and experienced law enforcement and intelligence executive. Prior to joining CNN, Miller served as Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence & Counterterrorism of the New York Police Department (NYPD).
Commissioner Miller is the former Deputy Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Analysis overseeing programs to improve analysis across the US government’s 16 intelligence agencies as well as the team that produced the President’s Daily Intelligence Briefing (PDB).
Before that, he was an Assistant Director of the FBI, where he oversaw public affairs, community outreach and served as the bureau’s national spokesman. Along with his law enforcement career, Miller has worked in journalism as a senior correspondent for WNBC-TV in New York, ABC News as a correspondent and anchor, CBS News reporting for CBS This Morning, CBS Evening News, and 60 Minutes.
Miller is best known for conducting a May 1998 interview with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. He is a winner of the DuPont Silver Baton (DuPont Award), two Peabody Awards and eleven Emmys. Miller was named the 2019 recipient of the prestigious FBI-NEIA Penrith Award for excellence in law enforcement leadership.
Miller is also the co-author of the New York Times bestseller “The Cell: Inside the 9/11 plot” (Hyperion, 2002).

Nick Noone
CEO and Co-Founder, Peregrine
Nick Noone is co-founder and CEO of Peregrine—a software engineering company that helps mission-critical organizations unlock their data to accelerate and improve how they make decisions and solve their most important problems.
Peregrine is deployed by public safety agencies in hundreds of jurisdictions across the United States and Canada, serving more than 80 million people. Previously, Noone led Palantir’s U.S. SOCOM business, overseeing global deployments and creating its real-time situational awareness platform.

Julianne Ortman
Attorney and Partner, Public Safety Strategies Group
Julianne Ortman is an attorney and managing partner with Public Safety Strategies Group, LLC a national consulting firm providing subject matter expertise and services for public agencies and private firms across the United States.
Julianne’s areas of expertise include law enforcement, corrections, mental health, justice, and public safety. She recently served concurrently as the Executive Director of the National Fusion Center Association, representing members of the National Fusion Center Network along with associated public safety partners and stakeholders across the United States, while working closely with federal partners: Congress, Homeland Security (DHS), Major County Sheriffs of America (MCSA), International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), National Sheriffs Association (NSA), Major Cities Chiefs (MCCA), Association of State Crime Labs Law (ASCIA); State and Local Government Agencies. She is the U.S. representative for the Leaders in International Counter-Terrorism Alumni Association (“LinCT-AA”) Global Planning Team.
Julianne is licensed to practice law in both Minnesota and Florida and became known for her successes as a trial attorney in several business and constitutional law cases. She is a former public official, elected to serve as a County Commissioner in Carver County, followed by four terms as a Minnesota State Senator, where she served as the Deputy Majority Leader, Chair of the Senate Tax Committee, and member of the Public Safety and Judiciary Committees.
Julianne served as Chief of Staff for Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek, from 2007-2018; her leadership assignments and areas of expertise include Finance, Legal Affairs, Communications, Government Relations, Strategic Planning, award-winning Jail studies and reforms, and the Agency’s internationally recognized Community Engagement Team. In 2019, Julianne moved to Florida to join the Command Staff for Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, where her chief assignment was to prosecute Risk Protection Order Cases -- Florida’s innovative Red Flag Law adopted following the tragic mass shootings at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
Julianne is a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul Minnesota, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia. She has been married to Ray Ortman since 1989, they have four grown children. She is an avid long-distance runner, having started – and finished -- 8 marathons, including the original marathon in Athens, Greece. She is currently endeavoring to run an official race in all 50 States (20 so far).

Sue O'Sullivan
Chair, INVICTM, ED Canada LinCT-AA
Throughout her career, Sue O’Sullivan has been an advocate for safe and healthy communities and for increased services to victims. Ms. O’Sullivan began her distinguished career in policing in 1981, holding numerous leadership positions throughout her 30 years of service until retiring as Deputy Chief of Police (Ottawa).
Continuing forward with her work and drawing on her background and interest in assisting those affected by crime, Ms. O’Sullivan began an appointed term as Canada's Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime on August 16, 2010 and completed her term on November 15th, 2017. During her time as Ombudsman, Ms. O’Sullivan continually placed a strong emphasis on ensuring that victims’ voices were heard at the federal level and pushed for positive change for victims of crime in Canada, including making recommendations to the Government of Canada on legislative and policy amendments.
She is currently the Executive Director of LinCT-AA Canada, Chair of the International Network Supporting Victims of Terrorism and Mass Violence (INVICTM), and past Chair of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) National Working Group Supporting Victims of Terrorism and Mass Violence. She is also a founding member of Victim Support Asia, a member of the International Victims Focus Group for Operation Kenova, and the Deputy Chair of the Counter Terrorism Preparedness Network (CTPN) – Humanitarian Assistance and Psychosocial Expert Working Group. In 2018, she was appointed to the National DNA Data Bank Advisory Committee.

John Parkinson, OBE MSt
Executive Managing Director, LinCT-AA
John is the Executive Managing Director of the International Leadership in Counter Terrorism Alumni Association (LinCT-AA). He is a Professor of Security and Counter Terrorism at the Global Security Institute supporting security and CT research and development programmes, in particular, those relating to data science and AI technologies.
John is a former UK police chief with leadership experience of counter terrorism investigations and operations, including the 7/7 London Bombings enquiry in Leeds. He was Head of the NE Counter Terrorism Unit and later acted as UK Senior National Coordinator Counter Terrorism. He was awarded the OBE for his services to Policing and Counter Terrorism in 2011. He now works closely advising the UK Government as a strategic security and policing advisor on programmes across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the Balkans and Latin America.
He is the Chair of the Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research at Sheffield Hallam University. (CENTRIC – supports research programmes to improve capability in Security, Counter Terrorism and Cyber Crime) He has contributed to and edited several publications on terrorism and violent extremism and has lectured extensively worldwide and is a Visiting Scholar for post graduate studies at Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University.

Joseph Pfeifer
FDNY Assistant Chief, 1st Deputy Fire Commissioner (Retired), Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University
Joseph Pfeifer is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He teaches a graduate course and an executive education program on crisis leadership. He also teaches a capstone course on climate security that examines climate risk, adaptive preparedness, disaster response, humanitarian assistance, and community resilience.
He is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he teaches several executive education programs on crisis leadership and directs research teams to examine the preparedness and response of international cities to major events. He has taught senior leaders worldwide about crisis leadership, disaster management, critical decision-making, cross-sector collaboration, organizational resilience, and crisis communication for extreme events. Additionally, he is a senior fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, teaching cadets at the U.S. Military Academy.
Pfeifer served as the former Acting Fire Commissioner and First Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). In this role, he oversaw 17,000 personnel and managed the department's day-to-day administration, including Fire and EMS operations. His responsibilities included assessing management, personnel, and response practices, identifying policy and budget priorities, shaping strategic planning, developing innovative technologies, and fostering collaborative relationships with other agencies.
Previously, Pfeifer served as FDNY's Chief of Counterterrorism and Emergency Preparedness, promoting Intelligence sharing and interagency response. He founded and directed FDNY's Center for Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness. During his career, he has responded to some of the most significant events in NYC's history. He was the first chief at the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11, commanded the largest residential fire during Hurricane Sandy, and managed other extreme events.
Pfeifer has sat down and talked with government officials, including presidents, prime ministers, governors, mayors, military generals, and community leaders. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and spoken at the United Nations about the threats cities will face in the future. As a leading professional in crisis leadership, he has appeared in primetime news interviews and documentary films.
Pfeifer has written extensively and is the author of The New York Times bestseller Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11. He holds master's degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School, the Naval Postgraduate School, and Immaculate Conception.

Christopher Raia
Assistant Director, FBI New York Field Office
Director Kash Patel has named Christopher G. Raia as the assistant director in charge of the New York Field Office. He most recently served as a deputy assistant director in the Counterterrorism Terrorism Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Raia joined the FBI as a special agent in 2003 and reported to the Texas City Resident Agency, a satellite office of the Houston Field Office. Mr. Raia spent 10 years investigating violent crime, gangs, drugs, and white-collar crime at the resident agency and served as the coordinator of the Safe Streets Task Force.
In 2012, Mr. Raia reported to FBI Headquarters as a supervisory special agent to serve as a program manager in the International Terrorism Operations Section of the Counterterrorism Division. Mr. Raia oversaw all international terrorism cases in the Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; Jackson, Mississippi; and Mobile, Alabama, field offices.
Mr. Raia was promoted in 2014 to senior supervisory resident agent at the Bryan/College Station Resident Agency of the Houston Field Office, where he oversaw all national security and programs. In 2020, he was named the assistant special agent in charge of the Houston Field Office’s Violent Crime Branch and then of its National Security Branch in 2021.
In 2023, Mr. Raia was selected to serve as the chief of staff for the executive assistant director of the National Security Branch at FBI Headquarters. Mr. Raia managed strategic initiatives, supervised executive staff, and directed communications projects. In addition, he coordinated major projects for external entities, such as Congress and the White House.
Mr. Raia was promoted to deputy assistant director in the Counterterrorism Division at Headquarters in 2024 and oversaw all international counterterrorism program-management for the FBI.
Mr. Raia graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and served as a Coast Guard officer in Florida before joining the FBI. He has been happily married for over 22 years and has three children.

Richard Stanek
Co-Founder and Principal Consultant, Public Safety Strategies Group, LLC.
Sheriff Rich Stanek, (Ret.) is a proud LinCT Alumni Member and Former President of the LinCT Alumni Association. Rich is the co-founder and Principal Consultant with Public Safety Strategies Group, LLC., bringing his wealth of knowledge from 40 years of public safety experience to clients across the country, including organizational leadership, agency management, national law enforcement best practices, crime reduction strategies, public policy advocacy, corporate security, and expert testimony.
Sheriff Stanek served honorably as the 27th Sheriff of Hennepin County (Minneapolis, MN) for 12 years with responsibility for the safety and security of 1.2 million residents. He managed over 1100 employees and volunteers, a budget of $125 million, and provided care and custody for inmates in the largest Jail and Sheriff’s Office in the Upper Midwest.
Rich is the former President of the Major County Sheriffs of America and First Vice President of the National Sheriff’s Association. He served five terms in the Minnesota Legislature, before being appointed by the Governor as Commissioner of Public Safety and Director of Homeland Security for the State of Minnesota.

Meghann Teubner
Assistant Commissioner, Intelligence Analysis, NYPD
Assistant Commissioner of Intelligence Analysis Meghann Teubner oversees the Intelligence Operations and Analysis Section of the Intelligence Division in the New York City Police Department’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau. In coordination with her operational counterpart, Assistant Commissioner Teubner ensures integration of intelligence analysis and operational efforts in support of the NYPD’s crime fighting, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and cyber threat intelligence missions.
In this capacity, Assistant Commissioner Teubner further manages strategic and investigative analysis, production, and dissemination for internal NYPD executives and officers as well as NYPD’s public and private law enforcement and security partners. She previously served as Director of Counterterrorism Intelligence Analysis, leading strategic and tactical analysis on investigations, global terrorism developments and trends, and potential threats to New York City.
Prior to joining the NYPD, Assistant Commissioner Teubner served as an analyst and senior representative at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC.) As NCTC’s Senior Representative based in New York, she ensured the integration of effort between NCTC and its federal, state, local, and tribal partners in the Northeast region, facilitating information sharing and collaboration in support of all partners’ counterterrorism missions. As an analyst in NCTC’s Directorate of Intelligence, Ms. Teubner developed strategic terrorism analysis on al-Qa‘ida-related issues and the evolution of the terrorism threat landscape. Ms. Teubner was recognized with multiple NCTC Director’s Awards and a National Intelligence Certificate of Distinction from the Director of National Intelligence for her dedication and support to NCTC’s mission.

Alastair Vanner
Detective Superintendent, UK Senior Liaison for Counter Terrorism Policing – North America, UK SO15
Alastair has 22 years’ service in the Metropolitan Police having joined in 2003. He was first posted to Front Line Policing where, following 2 years in uniform, he quickly progressed to a variety of Criminal Investigation departments as a Detective.
On promotion to Detective Sergeant, Alastair served as a supervisor within various teams investigating gang violence, homicide, rape & serious sexual offences, kidnap, firearms and drug supply.
Between 2015 – 2022 Alastair held the positions of Senior Investigating Officer in SO15 Counter Terrorism Command and the Senior Officer leading Covert Functions. Alastair was heavily involved in the investigations of the 2017 London terrorist attacks and led the terrorist murder investigation of Sir David Amess MP in 2021.
On promotion to Detective Superintendent in 2022 Alastair returned to Front Line Policing where he was the Senior Responsible Officer for all Metropolitan Police Mental Health, Suicide Prevention and Adult Safeguarding Units. At the same time Alastair led the Metropolitan Police through the Home Office ‘Angiolini Inquiry’ – relating to the murder of a lone female by a serving police officer.
In August 2024 Alastair began his role as Senior Liaison for Counter Terrorism – USA/Canada based in Washington DC. He oversees all UK/US/Canadian law enforcement engagement relating to Counter Terrorism, Counter-Intelligence and War Crimes. In January 2025 Alastair led the UK response to the New Orleans terrorist attack whereby 1 British national was murdered and several injured.
Alastair is an alumni of the Leaders in Counter Terrorism (LinCT) programme.

Rebecca Ulam Weiner
Deputy Commissioner, Intelligence & Counterterrorism, NYPD; President, LinCT-AA
Deputy Commissioner Rebecca Ulam Weiner oversees the New York City Police Department’s Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau, managing investigative, analytical, operational, and engagement efforts across the domains of counterterrorism, counterintelligence, criminal intelligence, infrastructure and event protection, cyber threat intelligence, and geopolitical risk.
She develops and implements policy and strategic priorities for the Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau and publicly represents the NYPD in matters involving counterterrorism and intelligence.
Prior to assuming command of the Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau, Deputy Commissioner Weiner oversaw the NYPD’s counterterrorism operations and analysis section, developing an internationally recognized intelligence and threat analysis program. She also served as the first representative of local law enforcement on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s National Intelligence Council, where she focused on transnational crime and terrorism. Deputy Commissioner Weiner previously served as Assistant Commissioner for Intelligence Analysis, Legal Counsel to the Intelligence Bureau’s Intelligence Analysis Unit, and Team Leader for the Middle East & North Africa, overseeing intelligence collection and analysis related to threats associated with those regions.
Prior to joining the NYPD in 2006, Deputy Commissioner Weiner was an International Security Fellow at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; a biotechnology consultant at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and a Science & Technology Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Deputy Commissioner Weiner graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts in History & Literature, and cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2005 with a Juris Doctorate. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia’s School for International and Public Affairs, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, President of the Leadership in Counterterrorism Alumni Association, and she was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York in 2006.

Tom Winter
National Law Enforcement & Intelligence Correspondent, NBC
NBC News’ Tom Winter reports on matters involving law enforcement, counter terrorism, and counterintelligence covering the eastern U.S. and select countries worldwide. For over 10 years he has been reporting on some of the largest terror attacks and mass shooting incidents worldwide while developing groundbreaking reports on the intelligence activities of foreign governments.
He has attended multiple terrorism trials including the entirety of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s prosecution which included reporting on the methodology, techniques, and ideology of some of the country’s most notorious terrorists. This knowledge base and ability to succinctly and accurately synthesize information has made him a “go-to” on-air reporter for NBC News Special Reports, NBC News Now, The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and MSNBC.
His experience goes beyond counter terrorism as his work on Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs has been recognized and cited in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russia’s attempt to interfere in the 2016 election. He has completed complex asset investigations and reported out details of investigations into several high-profile oligarchs who are under indictment and considered to be close associates of the Russian Federation His counterintelligence work also includes numerous reports on Chinese economic espionage, spies, and CIA officers who have turned against the U.S. for the benefit of the People’s Republic of China.
He is a graduate of Fordham University with a degree in Economics and is a member of the Investigative Reporters & Editors organization.