Daniel Mulvenna’s Full CV

Retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service officer. Experienced in counterespionage operations, counterintelligence analysis, and counterterrorism.

For the past 10 years, Mulvenna has worked as a lecturer on counterintelligence and counterterrorism to the U.S. and Canadian intelligence and law enforcement communities.

Mulvenna has been a featured speaker at several intelligence conferences. He was the founder and leader of the 1997, 1999, and 2003 Spy Moscow Conferences and Tours of intelligence facilities and sites in Russia. In addition, he was the Lecturer and Group Leader of the 2008 Cold War Conference through Cambridge University in England and Moscow.

For 19 years, Mulvenna was the Senior Executive responsible for Global Security & Risk Management for two multinational corporations with extensive operations and large numbers of expatriate and national personnel (approximately 55,000 to 75,000) in over 50 countries.

He has hands-on experience countering terrorist groups in the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS, and South East Asia.

For the past 11 years, Mulvenna has worked as a international security & crisis management consultant to private sector companies and institutions operating in higher-risk environments

In 1978, Mulvenna retired from the Security Service of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He worked in criminal investigations for 3 years before being assigned to the RCMP’s Security & Intelligence Directorate.

Following 3 years in the Government Personnel Security Branch, he transferred to counterespionage field operations against the Russian target. He worked successively as a Senior Investigator and Desk Head on the Russian “Illegals”, GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence), and KGB (Soviet State Security) Desks.

After 12 years in field operations, he was assigned to a senior position in Counterintelligence Research & Analysis at the RCMP’s Security Service HQ’s.

On retirement from the RCMP, Mulvenna worked for two multinational corporations for 18 years as the senior executive responsible for global security and risk management.

He recruited and directed a diverse multinational professional staff of security managers, investigators, analysts, and technical specialists providing security and support to operations and senior management in over 50 countries, many of them higher-risk environments.

Mulvenna has conducted intensive personnel security field training in such skills as surveillance detection, attack recognition, hostage survival, escape and evasion, and instinctive driving, for senior executives and country managers on-site in such locations as Baku, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Beirut, Cairo, Caracas, Casablanca, Dubai, Islamabad, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Kabul, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lima, Manila, Mexico City, Moscow, Riyadh, Tbilisi, Warsaw and frequently at a central European training facility in Vienna, Austria.

Since 1998, through his Leesburg Associates LLC based in the Washington D.C. area, Mulvenna has operated a global security consultancy for a number of Fortune 500 companies in the energy, pharmaceutical, financial, and aviation sectors. In addition to developing proactive programs to protect their personnel, operations, and assets, he and his colleagues respond to crisis events, such as the targeting of personnel, operations, and facilities by terrorists and organized criminal groups.

Since 2000, Mulvenna has lectured on counterintelligence and counterterrorism to agencies and personnel in the U.S. intelligence & law enforcement community. He has also provided CI, CT & Personal Security training for elements of the intelligence & law enforcement communities in Canada & the Netherlands.

Educated in the U.K., Mulvenna is also a graduate of Carleton University, Ottawa. From 1980 to 1988 he was an ad hoc Lecturer in the Criminology Department of Mount Royal College, Calgary, Canada. Mulvenna is an intelligence bibliophile and historian.