Peter Lavoy

Peter Lavoy
Peter Lavoy ; (spook, “terror expert”);
Nationality	US
Alma mater	Oberlin College, UC Berkeley
Interests	South Asia
	Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs
In office
	2011 - 2014
Employer	Office of the Secretary of Defense
	Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis
In office
	2008 - 2011
Employer	Office of the Director of National Intelligence
	Chairman of the National Intelligence Council
In office
	2008 - 2009
Employer	Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Preceded by	Gregory Treverton
	National Intelligence Officer for South Asia
In office
	2007 - 2008
Employer	Office of the Director of National Intelligence
	Director of Center for Contemporary Conflict and Senior Lecturer
In office
	2001 - 2007
Employer	Naval Postgraduate School
	Director for Counterproliferation Policy
In office
	1998 - 2000
Employer	Office of the Secretary of Defense
	Assistant Professor
In office
	1993 - 1997
Employer	Naval Postgraduate School

Dr Peter R. Lavoy is a former high ranking U.S. "security" official. He was the senior expert on South Asia in the US intelligence community.^[1]^[2]

Career

In 2003 Lavoy was director of the Center for Contemporary Conflict and co-director of the Regional Security Education Program at the Naval Postgraduate School. From June 1998 to June 2000 he was director for Counterproliferation Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.^[4]

After his government jobs ended in 2014, he became Senior Director, International Government Relations at ExxonMobil in 2017.^[5]

Lavoy is the author of Asymmetric Warfare In South Asia.

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Halifax International Security Forum/2012	21 November 2012	23 November 2012	Halifax Nova Scotia Canada	Spooky conference in Canada discussing the "New Normal" and Western nations' "special burden".

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