Meet the Speaker: Maria Langan-Riekhof

Maria Langan-Riekhof is the Director of the Strategic Futures Group at the National Intelligence Council, leading the Intelligence Community’s assessment of global dynamics and charged with producing the
quadrennial Global Trends product. She has spent more than 29 years in the intelligence community as both a senior analyst and manager, serving at the CIA and on the NIC. She brings a background in Middle East studies and has spent more than half her career analyzing regional dynamics.

Her leadership roles include: Chief of the CIA’s Red Cell, founder and director of the CIA’s Strategic Insight Group, and research director for the Middle East. She was one of the DNI’s Exceptional Analysts in 2008-09 and the Agency’s fellow at the Brookings Institution in 2016-17. She is a member of the Senior Analytic Service and the Senior Intelligence Service and holds degrees from the University of Chicago and the
University of Denver.