Bill Prillaman is a retired senior officer with a 34-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency. He was part of a four-person team leading the Directorate of Analysis, a group of several thousand analysts worldwide. Prior to that he spent eight years as chief and executive reviewer of the President’s Daily Brief. He also served as a speechwriter for CIA’s leadership team and morning intelligence briefer for the Secretary of Defense. He began his career as an analyst on Latin America.

Bill holds a B.A. in Foreign Affairs and Spanish from the University of Virginia (CLAS ’89), a Ph.D. from UVA (GSAS, 96) and a Master’s Degree from Tulane University. In retirement he is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and George Mason University and a consultant to several US and European political risk firms.