Former Deputy Director of National Security, FBI
Former Deputy Director, Counterterrorist Center, CIA
Senior Research Fellow, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative, New America Foundation
Author of Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda
Philip Mudd joined the CIA in 1985 as an analyst specializing in South Asia and then the Middle East. He began work in the CIA's Counterterrorist Center in 1992 and then served on the National Intelligence Council as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia (1995-98). He later managed Iraq analysis at the CIA (1999-2001).
Mudd worked on Middle East issues at the White House National Security Council in 2001. He left after the 9/11 attacks for a short assignment as the CIA member of the small diplomatic team that helped piece together a new government for Afghanistan. Mudd returned to the CIA in early 2002 to become second-in-charge of counterterrorism analysis in the Counterterrorist Center. He was promoted to the position of Deputy Director of the Center in 2003 and served there until 2005, when FBI Director Robert Mueller appointed him as the first-ever Deputy Director of the National Security Branch in 2005. Mudd later became the FBI's Senior Intelligence Adviser and then resigned from government service in March 2010.
Mudd has commented about terrorism often in Congress, and he has been featured by ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, BBC, MSNBC, Al-Jazeera, NPR, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He has written for Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, and Sentinel, the journal of the US Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center.
Mudd now serves as the Director of Global Risk at SouthernSun Asset Management in Memphis, Tennessee. He sits on the Aspen Institute's Homeland Security Group and is on the advisory board of the National Counterterrorist Center.
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