Stephen Marrin

Dr Stephen Marrin specializes in the study of intelligence analysis. After working at CIA as an analyst and contractor, he is now a Lecturer in the Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies at Brunel University in London, England. He has written about many different aspects of intelligence analysis, including new analyst training at CIA’s Sherman Kent School, the similarities and differences between intelligence analysis and medical diagnosis as a source of ideas for improving the quality of future intelligence analysis, and the professionalization of intelligence analysis. In 2004 the National Journal profiled him as one of the ten leading experts on intelligence reform.

In 2009, Dr Marrin received a PhD from the University of Virginia with a dissertation evaluating the intersection of intelligence analysis and decisionmaking. Recent articles and book chapters derived from this dissertation have addressed intelligence analysis methodology, intelligence analysis theory, the difficult intersection of analysis and decision, and mechanisms for closing the gap between intelligence producers and consumers.

He is also a member of the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence and Board member (program chairman) for the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association. Formerly an analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency, he later served with the US Congressional Government Accountability Office (GAO), and then spent four years as an assistant professor in the Intelligence Studies Department at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA.

Research Interests

Intelligence, Security

Publications

Journal Papers

(2011) Marrin, S., The 9/11 terrorist attacks: A failure of policy not strategic intelligence analysis, Intelligence and National Security 26 (2-3) : 182- 202