Neal Pollard

Neal Pollard is a director in the forensics technology practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he focuses on forensic investigations of cyber crime, economic espionage, and insider threats. He is also adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Previously, as a senior officer in the intelligence community, he served multiple managerial and operational counterterrorism assignments in the National Counterterrorism Center, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Central Intelligence Agency. He was director for counterterrorism on the staff of the U.S. Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism and was a member of the United Nation''s Expert Working Group on use of the Internet for terrorist purposes. Prior to government service, he was vice president of Hicks & Associates and general counsel and board director of the Terrorism Research Center, a corporation he cofounded in 1996. He holds a number of academic affiliations, including senior fellow of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council, senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and board director of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was an International Affairs Fellow, and is a member of the Virginia Bar.

Education

• JD cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center
• MLitt in Terrorism Studies, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
• BS in Mathematics, University of Oklahoma