Intelligence Speakers Bureau: Dan Mulvenna

Daniel J. Mulvenna

Internationally recognized security expert and risk management consultant to multinational corporations and global institutions.

25 years on-the-ground experience in developing security, counterterrorism and personal protection programs in higher-risk regions and countries worldwide.

Recognized authority on the operations and tactics of a broad spectrum of terrorist groups.

Hands-on experience countering the activities of terrorist groups in the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Russian and the CIS, and South East Asia.

Conducts personal protection and counterterrorism training programs for private sector and government clients in Bogotá, Caracas, Lima, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Cairo, Dubai, Beirut, Baku, Tbilisi, Manila and Johannesburg, as well as at a European training facility in Vienna.

Well-known speaker on traveling safely in higher-risk regions and foreign countries.

For 18 years, Senior Executive and Director of Global Security & Risk Management for two multinational corporations with extensive operations and a large number of expatriate and national personnel in over 50 countries.

Retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service officer with 21 years experience in national counterintelligence, counterterrorism and counter subversion programs.

Founder and leader of the SpyMoscow Conferences and Tours of Russia, 1997 and 2003.

Professor, Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies

Since 1997 Dan Mulvenna has been a global security and risk management consultant to a number of Fortune 100 companies and international institutions in the energy, pharmaceutical, financial and aviation sectors. With his extensive experience directing security operations in higher-risk international environments, he is able to develop and customize effective pro-active programs to protect corporate personnel and operational assets. Mulvenna brings to this process in-depth, hands-on experience with the potential technical and human interface problems in wide variety of situations and environments. A critical client support role is responding to crisis events, such as kidnappings, assassinations, insurrections, emergency country evacuations of expatriates and their families, operational sabotage, etc. He specializes in the protection of personnel working or traveling to/through high-risk countries, and those at risk because of their profile or the nature of their position/employer.

Beginning in 2000 Mulvenna began lecturing on counterintelligence and counterterrorism at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies. In this capacity he provides specialized training to a broad range of U.S. agencies.

From 1978 to 1997 Mulvenna was a senior executive responsible for organizing, developing and managing the worldwide security and risk management operations of two international corporations with extensive operations and personnel overseas. He recruited, trained and managed a diverse professional staff of Security Managers, Agents, Analysts and Technologists, drawn from a range of U.S. and international law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies (U.S., U.K., Canada, Argentina, Egypt, Colombia, Mexico, Trinidad.)

Dan Mulvenna served for 21 years, from 1957 to 1978, with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. After three years in the law enforcement side of the service, he was transferred to the Security and Intelligence Division, later renamed the Security Service. After a period of service in Headquarters, he worked as an investigator and later Supervisor on the Ottawa field office “Illegals”, GRU and KGB Desks, and subsequently returned to a senior position in the Counterintelligence Branch in Headquarters.

Mulvenna is a graduate of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. From 1980 to 1988 he was a lecturer in the Criminology Department of Mount Royal College in Calgary, Canada. Mulvenna is an intelligence bibliophile and historian.

Travels from Washington, DC area

Uses multimedia PowerPoint presentations

CI Centre Professor Dan Mulvenna led a three-day tour of spy sites in Moscow, May 26-29, 2003.

SpyMoscow

Sample Topics:

Safe Travel: 101 Rules on How to Avoid Being Attacked, Kidnapped or Assassinated

Global Terror Tactics

Personal Security for the International Traveler/ Expatriate

Organized Attacks by Terrorists/ Criminals-An Early Warning System