Steven E. Meyer
American intelligence official and academic
Steven E. Meyer (born circa 1941) is an American former intelligence official and academic. He served for 25 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, most notably as the deputy chief of the agency's Interagency Balkan Task Force during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. He is known for his involvement in the intelligence support for the Dayton Accords and his subsequent academic work at the National Defense University, where he became a critic of the United States foreign policy in Southeast Europe.
Education
Meyer graduated from the Eastern Christian High School in 1959, received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin, followed by a Master of Science from Fordham University. He earned his PhD in political science from Georgetown University, where he specialized in comparative politics and passed his comprehensive examinations with distinction.
Career
After receiving his PhD, Meyer taught at Georgetown University for a period before moving into the private sector at the think tank Mathematica Inc. in 1974. From 1982 to 1983 he served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow.
Intelligence service
Meyer's career in the CIA spanned from 1986 to 2011. He specialized in European and Russian politics, including work on nuclear weapons proliferation, arms control enforcement, and psychological profiling of political leaders.
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