The Intelligence Review | vol. 1 | iss. 1 |

MATT HAYES is a senior from Union, New Jersey, majoring in Intelligence and National Security
Studies at Coastal Carolina University. In 2016 he was an analyst in the Chanticleer Intelligence
Brief’s Asia and Africa Section, specializing in Central Africa. His research interests include law
enforcement intelligence, counterterrorism, and geospatial intelligence.
CONNOR KILGORE, from Reading, Pennsylvania, is in his junior year at Coastal Carolina University,
where he is majoring in Intelligence and National Security Studies with a minor in Global Studies.
In 2016 he was an analyst in the Americas Section of the Chanticleer Intelligence Brief, specializing
in energy security and international relations. In May 2016 he was appointed to serve as an officer
in the Chanticleer Intelligence Brief’s Executive Team.
JEREMY LEE is a senior from Geneva, Illinois, majoring in Intelligence and National Security Studies
at Coastal Carolina University. He is an analyst in the Europe Section of the Chanticleer Intelligence
Brief and also serves as the organization’s Chief Operations Officer. Jeremy specializes in the European
Union with an emphasis on Schengen Area security issues. He has also worked as an intelligence
and security analyst for the Exelon Corporation, which is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
BENJAMIN MALONE is majoring in Intelligence and National Security Studies and minoring in Middle
East Studies at Coastal Carolina University. In 2015 he founded and served as the first Executive
Director of the Chanticleer Intelligence Brief, a flagship student-run initiative at Coastal Carolina
University that utilizes multiple open-source collection platforms to improve students’ ability to
gather, analyze, and present information. Ben has also served on numerous student leadership
committees and advised student organizations and initiatives relating to intelligence and national
security.
AMY THOMAS, from New Holland, Ohio, is a recent graduate from Coastal Carolina University,
where she received a degree in Intelligence and National Security Studies. As part of the Chanticleer
Intelligence Brief, she was an analyst for the Asia and Africa Section, with a focus on Afghanistan
and the Afghan Taliban. Her interests lie in counter-terrorism with a focus on the sociology and
generational change in leaders of non-state actors, especially the Afghan Taliban.
JOSEPH FITSANAKIS, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Politics in the Intelligence and National Security
Studies program at Coastal Carolina University. Before joining Coastal, Dr. Fitsanakis founded the
Security and Intelligence Studies program at King University, where he also directed the King
Institute for Security and Intelligence Studies. He has written extensively on subjects such as international
espionage, intelligence tradecraft, counterintelligence, wiretapping, cyberespionage, transnational
crime and intelligence reform. He is a frequent contributor to television and radio and senior editor
at intelNews.org, an ACI-indexed scholarly blog that is cataloged through the US Library of Congress.
JOHN NOMIKOS, PhD, is Director at the Research Institute for European and American Studies
(RIEAS), Chairman of the Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies (MCIS), Chairman of the
Greek Intelligence Studies Association (GISA), Chairman of the European Intelligence Academy (EIA),
and Founding Editor of the Journal of Mediterranean and Balkan Intelligence (JMBI). He is Assistant
Professor at Webster University (Athens Campus), and Visiting Scholar at the John Naisbitt
University in Serbia and the University of Rome (Tre) in Italy. He was previously Adjunct Professor
at the Department of International Relations at the University of Indianapolis (Athens Campus).
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