Mr. Melley is Senior Advisor to the Deputy Director, Strategic Deterrence, and Director, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Previously, he was Director of the Center for Strategic Deterrence and Weapons of Mass Destruction Studies, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, where he was responsible for developing and implementing Center research plans, programs, and policy support activities for Department of War and other national security sponsors. He joined NDU in 2011 as a Senior Research Fellow, and focused on nuclear deterrence, counterproliferation, and countering WMD projects. Prior to joining NDU, he was Vice President of the Cohen Group, an international business consulting firm.
Mr. Melley served as a Director on the National Security Council staff from 2001-2005 in both the Intelligence Programs and Proliferation Strategy offices, and managed the development and implementation of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), as well as supported other priority U.S. intelligence and counterproliferation policy efforts.
Previous civilian government experience includes senior staff assignments at the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and as a professional staff member on the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Mr. Melley served on active duty as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Division (Light), and as a military intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Mr. Melley graduated from Providence College, Rhode Island, the Postgraduate Intelligence Program at DIA, and has a Master of Science in WMD Studies from Missouri State University.
