Marilyn B. Peterson Elected Chair of IAFIE

Marilyn B. Peterson, CCA, CFE, was elected to a two-year term as Chair of the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE) on May 27, 2009.  She was the Vice Chair of IAFIE and had previously been the Events Director and had helped establish the Washington DC Area Chapter of IAFIE.

Ms. Peterson is a Senior Instructor at the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center at the Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC.  She managers the Counter Threat Finance Intelligence Training Program there and has also taught Critical Thinking and Structured Analytic Techniques.

Ms. Peterson retired from the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice in December 2005 after 25 years as an analyst and intelligence instructor.  She is past president of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA; 1996-1999); founder and past Chancellor of the Society of Certified Criminal Analysts; and Regent Emeritus of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

She has written extensively in the intelligence field, beginning in 1985.  She was co-editor of Criminal Intelligence Analysis (1990); authored Applications in Criminal Analysis:  A Sourcebook (1994); was managing editor of Intelligence 2000:  Revising the Basic Elements (2001); and authored A Guide to the Financial Analysis of Personal and Corporate Bank Records (1996), A Guide to Understanding and Analyzing Bank Secrecy Act Records (2002), Intelligence Led Policing:  The New Intelligence Architecture (2004) and A Guide to Counter Threat Finance Intelligence (2009).  She is also an editor of Intelligence in the 21st Century (forthcoming).

She has taught intelligence and analysis in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Germany and Poland.  She has presented on intelligence topics in Australia, Bulgaria, Germany, Great Britain, and Canada.  She has also created graduate and undergraduate courses for the Homeland Security program at Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey.

She is a Certified Criminal Analyst (1990) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (1995), as well as being a Fellow of the ACFE.  She has received a half-dozen writing awards and received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Society of Certified Criminal Analysts and a Chairman’s Award from the Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Units. 

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