Katherine Hibbs Pherson, Chief Executive Officer of Globalytica and the VEXAS Global Foundation, teaches advanced analytic techniques and critical thinking skills to analysts in government, academia, and the private sector and consults to the government on planning, security, and analysis projects. She and the late Randy Pherson are co-authors of Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence, 3rd ed. (2021). Ms. Pherson currently serves as the Vice President of the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE). As the past vice chair of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance’s (INSA) Security Policy Reform Council (2010-2024), she served as INSA’s representative to the National Industrial Security Program Policy Advisory Committee (NISPPAC). She has since 2018 supported the US Government’s Trusted Workforce 2.0 (TW 2.0) transformation initiative. Ms. Pherson in 2000 completed a 27-year career with CIA in intelligence and security analysis and resource management. Her leadership in security led to the adoption of a risk management methodology, strengthening and implementation of overseas security countermeasures, and improvements in dealing with unsolicited contacts. Ms. Pherson holds MA degrees in Spanish Linguistics and Latin American Studies and in Communications and is a recipient of CIA's Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal and the Intelligence Community’s National Distinguished Service Medal.
