Andrea Mayer is the Academic Director of the National Security & Intelligence, Law, and American Politics Academies.
Andrea Mayer currently serves as the Director of Illinois in Washington, the Washington, DC academic program for the University of Illinois, and teaches a variety of political science courses. She is also the Academic Director for Georgetown University’s summer programs offered through the School of Continuing Studies –the National Security and Intelligence Academy, Law I Academy, Law II Academy and American Politics Academy. Since 2011, she has taught a number of undergraduate courses at Georgetown University and several other universities and programs in Washington, DC, and Colorado.
Prior to her work in academia, Dr. Mayer served as a trial attorney for nine years representing the federal government in several capacities, including Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, receivership counsel and agency counsel. Her work focused on employment law, fraud, venture capital and investment law, regulatory enforcement and governmental privileges. In addition, she worked as part of the legal staff of the U.S. Bankruptcy Review Commission and the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Dr. Mayer received her J.D. from George Washington University and her Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University, after completing Ph.D. coursework at Georgetown and Harvard Universities. Her research and teaching interests center on the intersection between constitutional law, political behavior and social change.
Dr. Lorne Teitelbaum is an intelligence professional with over 33 years’ experience, now working as fulltime faculty in the National Intelligence University teaching courses in Intelligence Community leadership and ethics.
He recently finished a joint duty assignment as the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Intelligence and National Security at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Prior to that assignment, he worked in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Prior to his detail to the NSC, he spent three years as the senior speechwriter for the Director of National Intelligence.
Dr. Teitelbaum began his career in 1991 at the Central Intelligence Agency and then took a position as a Doctoral Fellow at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, working on classified projects for intelligence community clients while earning his doctorate in public policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He has led analytic studies for the Directors of the National Reconnaissance Office and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
Lorne Teitelbaum holds an undergraduate degree in political science from Columbia University and a masters degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His doctoral dissertation, The Impact of the Information Revolution On Policy Makers Use of Intelligence Analysis was published by the RAND Corporation in 2005.
