Neal Pollard is an Adjunct Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Georgetown University Medical Center. He also teaches graduate courses within the Security Studies division of Edmund E. Walsh School of Foreign Service a Georgetown University.

Summary:

• JD, cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center, 2003; Master of Letters in International Security studies, St. Andrews University of Scotland, 1995.
• At Georgetown Since: 2003
• No lab capacity
• Contact: nap@georgetown.edu

Professor Pollard has contributed over 15 years of research into the threat of terrorism and over 12 years of research into counterterrorism policy, strategy, and technology planning. He also has a particular interest in strategic operational planning for counterterrorism.

Recent Publications:

“Counterterrorism in Cyberspace: Opportunities and Hurdles,” Countering Terrorism and WMD: Creating a Global Anti-Terrorism Network, Peter Katona, Michael D. Intriligator, and John Sullivan, eds. (London: Taylor and Francis, forthcoming, 2005).

“Competing with Terrorists in Cyberspace,” Unnamed Edited Collection, Lars Nicander and Magnus Ranstorp, eds. (Stockholm: Swedish National Defence College Press, forthcoming 2005).

“Technology and Intelligence Reform,” Faces of Intelligence Reform, Angela Sapp et al, eds. (Washington, DC: Center for Emerging National Security Affairs, 2005).

“Globalization’s Bastards,” Networks, Terrorism, and Global Insurgency, Robert J. Bunker, ed. (London: Taylor & Francis, 2005).

“Globalization’s Bastards: The Problem of Illegitimate Non-State Actors in International Law, Law Enforcement and Low Intensity Conflict v.11 n.2/3 (Winter 2004).

“Indications and Warning of Infrastructure Attack: A Framework for Analysis,” Terrorism in the Information Age, Prof. Lars Nicander and Dr. Magnus Ranstorp, eds. (Stockholm: Swedish National Defence College Press, 2004).

Project Responder: A National Technology Plan for Emergency Response to Catastrophic Terrorism (co-edited), Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (published for the Department of Homeland Security), 2004.

“Emergency Responders’ Needs, Goals, and Priorities: Project Responder Interim Report,” co-authored with Robert V. Tuohy and Thomas P. Garwin, Report to Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, and the United States Department of Homeland Security, January 2003.

“Functional Priorities for Terrorism Response: Preliminary Findings from Project Responder,” co-authored with Robert V. Tuohy and Thomas P. Garwin, Report to Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, and the White House Office of Homeland Security, October 2002.

“Homeland Security: The Difference between a Vision and a Wish,” Michael B. Donley & Neal A. Pollard, Public Administration Review v.62 (September 2002).