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Maria Robson-Morrow

Staff Expert

Program Manager of the Intelligence Project. Thesis Director at the Harvard Division of Continuing Education.

Dr. Maria Robson-Morrow is the Program Manager at the Intelligence Project. She worked as a global security intelligence analyst in the Canadian energy sector and then ran her own security intelligence consultancy before returning to academia to study public-private intelligence cooperation. She earned a PhD in Political Science in 2021 from Northeastern University and holds a Master’s in Military and Strategic Studies from the University of Calgary and a BA in International Relations, Economics, and History from the University of Toronto. Maria's research has been published in Intelligence and National Security, the Journal of Intelligence History, the Cipher Brief, and the Harvard Business Review. 

Maria teaches one course per semester as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Intelligence Analysis graduate program at Johns Hopkins University, including Research Design, Art and Practice of Intelligence, and Intelligence Tradecraft for the Private Sector. She is also an External Fellow at the International History Institute at Boston University.

Maria currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of International Risk Intelligence Professionals. She previously served on the boards of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies and the North American Society for Intelligence History.