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Mitchell Silber
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
mds2105@columbia.edu
Biography:
Mitchell Silber is director of the New York Police Department’s Intelligence Division’s Analytic and Cyber Units. Silber supervises the analysis of the entire portfolio of ongoing investigations within the Intelligence Division, directs collection efforts for the Cyber Intelligence Unit, and mentors the civilian analytic cadre. He is responsible for providing timely, accurate and actionable intelligence to the Deputy Commissioner, Intelligence.
Previously, Silber served on the strategic staff for the Deputy and Assistant Commissioners of Intelligence, where he was responsible for strategic threat assessments for the Intelligence Division as well as for developing and maintaining relationships with foreign police and intelligence agencies.
Silber is the author of The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West (2011). He is co-author of the NYPD report, “Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat.” He has presented on behalf of the NYPD at the White House, National Security Council, CIA, FBI, and the National Counterterrorism Center and testified before the U.S. Senate. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a 2011 recipient of SIPA’s Global Leadership Award.
Silber spent nine years in corporate finance as a partner at The Carson Group and as a principal at Evolution Capital, LLC.
Silber holds a Master of International Affairs from SIPA, where he specialized in Middle East studies, with a concentration on Saudi Arabia.