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Neal A. Pollard was Vice President of Hicks & Associates, Inc. Mr. Pollard has over 15 years of experience researching the threat of terrorism, and over ten years of experience in strategy and technology planning for counter-terrorism. He is a consultant to the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, and Sweden, providing legal and substantive expertise on issues of counter-terrorism, intelligence, and critical infrastructure protection. In 1996, he co-founded the Terrorism Research Center, Inc., where he still serves on the Board of Directors and as General Counsel. He is adjunct faculty at the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on technology and homeland security for the Science, Technology, and International Affairs Program. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown Medical Center Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. He holds degrees in mathematics and political science, received his Master of Letters degree in international security studies from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and received a J.D. cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center.
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