MATT HAYES is a senior from Union, New Jersey, majoring in <strong>Intelligence</strong> and National Security Studies at Coastal Carolina University. In 2016 he was an analyst in the Chanticleer <strong>Intelligence</strong> 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 <strong>Intelligence</strong> and National Security Studies with a minor in Global Studies. In 2016 he was an analyst in the Americas Section of the Chanticleer <strong>Intelligence</strong> Brief, specializing in energy security and international relations. In May 2016 he was appointed to serve as an officer in the Chanticleer <strong>Intelligence</strong> Brief’s Executive Team. JEREMY LEE is a senior from Geneva, Illinois, majoring in <strong>Intelligence</strong> and National Security Studies at Coastal Carolina University. He is an analyst in the Europe Section of the Chanticleer <strong>Intelligence</strong> Brief and also serves as the organization’s Chief Operations Officer. Jeremy specializes in the European Union with an emphasis on Schengen Area security <strong>iss</strong>ues. 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 <strong>Intelligence</strong> 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 <strong>Intelligence</strong> 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 <strong>Intelligence</strong> and National Security Studies. As part of the Chanticleer <strong>Intelligence</strong> 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 <strong>Intelligence</strong> and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University. Before joining Coastal, Dr. Fitsanakis founded the Security and <strong>Intelligence</strong> Studies program at King University, where he also directed the King Institute for Security and <strong>Intelligence</strong> 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 <strong>Intelligence</strong> Studies (MCIS), Chairman of the Greek <strong>Intelligence</strong> Studies Association (GISA), Chairman of the European <strong>Intelligence</strong> Academy (EIA), and Founding Editor of the Journal of Mediterranean and Balkan <strong>Intelligence</strong> (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). 60
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