Maria Robson-Morrow, External Fellow

Dr. Maria Robson-Morrow manages the Intelligence Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her core research focus is the private sector intelligence profession and the history of intelligence cooperation.

Dr. Robson-Morrow previously worked as a global security intelligence analyst in the Canadian energy sector and then as an independent security intelligence consultant before returning to academia to study public-private intelligence cooperation.   She earned a PhD in Political Science in 2021 from Northeastern University and holds a Master’s in Military and Strategic Studies from the University of Calgary and a BA in International Relations, Economics, and History from the University of Toronto.

She is a frequent guest lecturer at the Pardee School and teaches occasional courses at Johns Hopkins University in the Intelligence Analysis graduate program, including Research Design, Art and Practice of Intelligence, and Intelligence Tradecraft for the Private Sector. Her research has been published in Intelligence and National Security, the Cipher Brief, the Journal of Intelligence History, and the Harvard Business Review.

Dr. Robson-Morrow serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of International Risk Intelligence Professionals and has previously served on the boards of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies, the New England Analysts’ Roundtable, and the North American Society for Intelligence History.