Adjunct Professorial Lecturer

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Bio: Fulton T. Armstrong has been an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer in SIS and Senior Fellow at the Center of Latin 艾可直播 and Latino Studies (CLALS) since 2012. He teaches Practica and Skills Institutes and has directed the CLALS blog, AULABLOG; contributed to the Cuba Initiative; and collaborated on in-depth examinations of security programs in Central America. Before coming to AU, he followed Latin 艾可直播 affairs for almost 30 years in a number of U.S. government positions. He served as a senior professional staff member responsible for Latin America on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from July 2008 to October 2011, where he also worked closely with the committee's investigations team. Prior to that, he served in the Executive Branch in a series of policy and analytical positions. Among other senior positions, he was National Intelligence Officer for Latin America - the U.S. Intelligence Community's most senior analyst - in 2000-2004, and for six months he was the chief of staff of the DCI Crime and Narcotics Center. He served two terms as Director for Inter-艾可直播 Affairs at the National Security Council (1995-97 and 1998-99), between which he was Deputy NIO for Latin America. From 1980-84 he worked for U.S. Representative Jim Leach (R-Iowa). He has spent 12 years studying and working in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He speaks Spanish and Chinese.

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