Fulton T. Armstrong
American University, Faculty
Fulton T. Armstrong is a writer, analyst and adjunct professor at American University and Syracuse University’s Maxwell School Program in Washington, DC. He teaches about intelligence, foreign policy, and Latin America. He is also aguest lecturer at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. He has conducted workshops in intelligence analysis in Latin America as well. He is author of A Guide to Producing Actionable Intelligence: Drivers, Scenarios, and Policy (2023).
Before 2012, he followed Asian, Latin American, and European affairs for 35 years in a number of different positions, initially as a journalist/editor and later as a senior intelligence and policy specialist. He served as a senior professional staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2008-11, where he also worked closely with the committee’s investigations team. Prior to that, he was chief intelligence advisor to a U.S. military commander in Europe and NATO (2005-07); U.S. National Intelligence Officer for Latin America (2000-04); and chief of staff of the DCI Crime and Narcotics Center.
He served two terms as a Director for Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council (White House), 1995-99. In the early years of his career, he was a legislative assistant for foreign affairs and press secretary for a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and reporter and editor for radio and magazines while living in Taiwan. Born in New York City, he has spent some 15 years of his life studying and working in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He speaks English, Spanish and Chinese.
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