Mark Fallon

Mark Fallon is the Director of ClubFed, LLC an international security consultancy, and is an Expert Consult, Expert Witness and Strategic Advisor on matters of counterterrorism, criminal investigation, transformational training, and leading during crisis. A leading authority on the integration of the psychological sciences to improve the practice of effective questioning and global policing, Mark was a member of the 15-person Steering Committee of Experts that developed the Méndez Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering. He is Past-Chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) International Managers of Police Academy and College Training (IMPACT) Section and is currently serving as the Interim Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) at the University of Pennsylvania. While a Visiting Scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, he Co-Founded Project Aletheia as a knowledge center to bridge the gap between the science and practice of interrogation. Based on his acumen, knowledge, and experience in both the research and practice of interviewing, debriefing and interrogation, Mark has designed and developed the SMART Tradecraft on Effective Interviewing as part of police reformation initiatives advocating procedural just and virtuous policing.

Mark Fallon is an internationally recognized expert on security issues, counterterrorism, and interrogation. He is the author of Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon and US Government Conspired to Torture (ReganArts, 2017). He is a co-editor and contributor of Interrogation and Torture: Integrating Efficacy with Law and Morality (Oxford University Press, 2020). Mark is a contributing author for Just Security, and the Rule of Law Post at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mark Fallon has been featured in film productions including ‘Inside the Real NCIS’ (National Geographic), ‘Cable Car Collision’ (National Geographic), ‘Rendition Revisited’ (Al Jazeera), ‘Inside America’s Dark Prison’ (TRT World Focal Point), ‘Eminent Monsters’ (Hopscotch Films), ‘Zero Impunity’ (a_Bahn Film Production) and is featured as a comic book character in the graphic novel ‘Guantanamo Voices” (Abrams ComicArts – September 2020). Mark assisted in the production of ‘The Report’ (Prime Video 2019), ‘The Forever Prisoner’ (HBO Max 2021) and is among the historic figures featured in the series ‘Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror’ (NETFLIX 2021).