John D. Woodward, Jr. is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. During his twenty-one-year CIA career, John served as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service and as a technical intelligence officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, with his assignments including operational and leadership roles in Washington D.C., East Asia, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East.<\/p>\n
From 2000 to 2006, John worked at the RAND Corporation, a federally funded\u00a0research and development center, as a senior policy analyst (2000-2003) and\u00a0the Associate Director of RAND\u2019s Intelligence Policy Center (2005-2006),\u00a0where he helped oversee, manage, and develop RAND\u2019s work for the national\u00a0security community.<\/p>\n
From 2003 to 2005, John served as the Director of the U.S. Department of Defense Biometrics Management Office, where he received the Army\u2019s third-highest civilian award for his work using biometric technologies to identify national security threats. Prior to that, he practiced law, worked as a law clerk for a federal district court judge, and served as a U.S. Army officer commissioned in the Corps of Engineers.<\/p>\n
From 2006 to 2015, John taught graduate courses on national security issues as an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Through his years of government service, public policy work, and university teaching, John has gained extensive experience related to intelligence, counter-terrorism, and technology policy issues. He has testified before Congress on four occasions, the Commission on Online Child Protection, and the Virginia State Crime Commission.<\/p>\n
John most recently edited a history of intelligence entitled Spying: From the Fall of Jericho to the Fall of the Wall, (Waynesburg University Press, 2023).\u00a0 His other publications include Biometrics:\u00a0Identity Assurance in the Information Age, (McGraw-Hill, 2003), Army\u00a0Biometric Applications: Identifying and Addressing Sociocultural Concerns\u00a0(RAND, 2001) and his many articles have appeared in various journals and\u00a0newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Proceedings of the Institute of\u00a0Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Legal Times, Studies in Intelligence, The Intelligencer, and the University of\u00a0Pittsburgh Law Review.<\/p>\n
Woodward is an active member of the Virginia State Bar and serves as an instructor for the Virginia Mountain Valley Lawyers\u2019 Alliance, which provides free and low-cost legal education. He is a licensed emergency medical technician (EMT).<\/p>\n
Professor Woodward\u2018s primary areas of interest include intelligence, counter-terrorism, national security, homeland security, East Asia, and biometrics. Appointed by the Massachusetts Speaker of the House, he served as a voting member of the Special Commission on Facial Recognition from 2021 to 2022.<\/p>\n
In 2024, the Provost named John to serve as the Director of the Division of Military Education.\u00a0 In this role, he oversees the activities of BU\u2019s Air Force, Army, and Navy\/Marine Corps ROTC.\u00a0 In 2023, he became the Director of the Pardee School\u2019s International History Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58418,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17758\/revisions\/58418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}