Mike Ackerman

Widely acknowledged as one of America’s leading authorities on terrorism, Mike Ackerman’s forte is recovering kidnap victims.  He has lectured at the National War College, the Harvard Business School and Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, has appeared before the crisis-management teams of numerous multinational corporations and has made more than 50 appearances as a commentator on terrorism and intelligence matters on major news networks.  His book, Counterterrorism Strategies for Corporations: The Ackerman Principles, was published in 2008.  Ackerman served in the CIA’s Clandestine Services for 11 years before resigning in 1975 to protest the congressional investigation of the Agency then in progress and plead for the preservation of America’s intelligence capability.  In the CIA he had undertaken intelligence operations in 20 European, Latin American and African countries.  Fluent in Spanish and conversant in Russian and Italian, Ackerman graduated from Dartmouth College magna cum laude and holds an M.A. from Columbia.  He was a security officer in the US Air Force Strategic Air Command.