{"id":58176,"date":"2015-09-18T16:20:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T20:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=58176"},"modified":"2019-10-09T12:50:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T16:50:28","slug":"john-woodward","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/john-woodward\/","title":{"rendered":"John Woodward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John D. Woodward, Jr. is a Professor of the Practice of International Relations at Boston University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/\">Pardee School of Global Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Woodward is a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/index.html\">Central Intelligence Agency<\/a> (CIA) officer.\u00a0During his twenty-year CIA career, John served as an operations officer in\u00a0the Clandestine Service and as a technical intelligence officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, with assignments in Washington, DC,\u00a0East Asia, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>From 2003 to 2005, John served as the Director of the U.S. Department of\u00a0Defense Biometrics Management Office, where he received the Army\u2019s third\u00a0highest civilian award for his work on using biometric technologies to\u00a0identify national security threats. Prior to that, he practiced law, worked\u00a0as a law clerk for a federal district court judge, and served as a U.S. Army\u00a0officer commissioned in the Corps of Engineers.<\/p>\n<p>From 2006 to 2015, John was an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of\u00a0International Affairs at the George Washington University. He taught\u00a0graduate and undergraduate classes on security issues.\u00a0Through his years of government service, public policy work, and university\u00a0teaching, John has gained extensive experience related to intelligence, counterterrorism, and technology policy issues. He has testified before\u00a0Congress on four occasions, the Commission on Online Child Protection, and\u00a0the Virginia State Crime Commission.<\/p>\n<p>His publications include Biometrics:\u00a0Identity Assurance in the Information Age, (McGraw-Hill, 2003), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rand.org\/content\/dam\/rand\/pubs\/monograph_reports\/2007\/MR1237.pdf\">Army\u00a0Biometric Applications: Identifying and Addressing Sociocultural Concerns<\/a>\u00a0(RAND, 2001) and his many articles have appeared in various journals and\u00a0newspapers, including the Washington Post, Proceedings of the Institute of\u00a0Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Legal Times, and the University of\u00a0Pittsburgh Law Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70267,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58176\/revisions\/70267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}