Dexter Ingram has spent three decades keeping the world safer from terrorists and weapons of mass destruction.

At the U.S. Department of State, he led the Office of Countering Violent Extremism, served as Acting Director for the Office of the Special Envoy to Defeat ISIS, and was Deputy Director for the Office of Preventing WMD Terrorism. He’s coordinated counterterrorism operations from INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, led U.S. delegations across Asia and Africa to counter nuclear proliferation, served as Senior Political Advisor in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, and worked alongside the FBI and DHS. H

is first book, The Spy Archive: Hidden Lives, Secret Missions, and the History of Espionage, hit Amazon’s #1 new release, drawn from his impressive private collection of espionage artifacts. His second book, National Security Careers, is the guide he wishes he’d had when he started. He writes the weekly newsletter Dexter Ingram: Declassified, covering intelligence history, threat analysis, and radicalization prevention.

Ingram serves on the boards of the International Spy Museum, Real Spy Comics, Globally, and the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE). He founded IN Network (in-network.org), a nonprofit opening doors to national security careers for young people from all backgrounds – because the next