DANIEL J. MULVENNA
Dan Mulvenna retired from the Security Service of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police after 21 years of service. He was selected into the Security Service after 3 years field service in the RCMP’s Criminal Investigations Branch. He worked in Government Personnel Security & Counter-Subversion Branches before being assigned to counter espionage field operations against the Russian target. There he worked as a Senior Investigator and, successively, head of the “Illegals”, GRU & KGB Desks. Returning to Security Service Headquarters he was assigned to Operational Research in the Counterintelligence Branch focusing on Russian operations.
On retirement, Mulvenna worked for two multinational corporations for 18 years as the senior executive responsible for global security and risk management. In this capacity, he directed a diverse professional staff of security managers, investigators, analysts & technical specialists developing and providing security and protection services and programs in over 50 countries.
Since 1998 to the present, he has worked as a Security & Risk Management Consultant to multinational corporations & government clients. He has conducted personnel protection & counterterrorism training programs for clients in such locations as Bogotá, Lima, Mexico City, Caracas, Buenos Aires, Beirut, Cairo, Riyadh, Dubai, Baku, Casablanca, Moscow, Tbilisi, Warsaw, Manila, Karachi, Islamabad, Kabul, Kuala Lumpur & Johannesburg.
From 1980 to 1988 Mulvenna was a lecturer in the Criminology Department of Mount Royal College, Calgary, Canada. He organized and led the 1997, 1999 & 2003 Spy Moscow Intelligence Conference & Tour of Russian intelligence sites. He was also a Lecturer and Group Leader of a 2008 Cold War Conference held at Cambridge University and in Moscow. In Oct 2010 he was the specialist lecturer and guide on a Spy Cruise of Black Sea Russian ports and intelligence related locations such as Yalta, and again on a 2011 Spy Tour of Berlin & London.
From 2000 to 2008 he lectured on counterintelligence and counter terrorism at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies, Washington, D.C., and from 2008 to the present at CT/CI Training Partners, to U.S., Canadian & Dutch intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies.
Educated in the U.K. and Canada, and a graduate of Carleton University, Ottawa, Mulvenna is an intelligence bibliophile and historian.