Philip
Mudd – Associate Executive Assistant Director,
National
Security Branch
Mr. Mudd was appointed by Director Mueller as the
Associate Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch,
on August 12, 2005.
Prior to his arrival at the FBI, Mr. Mudd served as Deputy Director
of the DCI Counter Terrorism Center (CTC), a position he was appointed
to in December 2003. In his capacity as the Deputy Director, CTC,
Mr. Mudd was responsible for overseeing operational, analytical,
and support programs in the Center.
Mr. Mudd joined the CIA in 1985 as a leadership analyst responsible
for South Asian issues and continued as a political analyst specializing
in South Asia until the early 1990s. He first shifted to work at
CTC during 1992-1995, focusing largely on terrorism in the Middle
East in general, with an emphasis on Iranian state-sponsored terrorism.
He later joined that National Intelligence Council for a tour as
Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asian
issues. Mr. Mudd worked as the Executive Assistant to the Associate
Deputy Director for Intelligence in 1998-1999 and then spent two
years as chief of CIA's analytic group directed against Iraq. From
February 2001 to January 2002, he was the Director for Gulf Affairs
Near East and North African Affairs at the National Security Council.
He then returned to become the Deputy Director of the Office of
Terrorism Analysis, the analytic arm of the CTC.
Mr.
Mudd was presented the Director's Award in July 2004 for his
leadership, extraordinary fidelity, and essential service by
the Director of Central Intelligence. In November 2002, Mr. Mudd
received the William L. Langer Award for his deep substantive
expertise and outstanding talents as a leader. Mr. Mudd has also
received the CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Medal and the George
H. W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism.
Mr. Mudd earned
a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of
Virginia (1984), with a specialty in fiction from
the Victorian era, and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature
from Villanova University (1983). He speaks French and is an avid
fisherman.