Mark Fallon

Mark Fallon is a leading national security expert, an acclaimed author, and an international security consultant. His government service spans more than three decades with positions including NCIS Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Senior Executive within the Department of Homeland Security. He currently serves as Chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police IMPACT Section, as a member of a Global Steering Committee, developing universal standards for non-coercive interviewing and is on the Advisory Council for the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Fallon’s extensive counterterrorism experience includes the investigation of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (“the Blind Sheik”), leading the USS Cole Task Force, and serving as the Deputy Commander of the task force investigating the al-Qaida terrorist network for trials before military commissions. He was the program manager for research studies of violent extremism for the Qatar International Academy for Security Studies and served as Chair of the U.S. Government High Value Detainee Interrogation Group Research Committee. In 2016 Roger Williams University named Fallon their Distinguished Alumnus of the Year and in 2017 the International Investigative Interview Research Group named him Practitioner of the Year. As a media expert, Fallon provides commentary for major outlets including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, BBC and Al Jazeera; and for films 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), ‘Zero Impunity’ (a_Bahn Film Production) and ‘Eminent Monsters’ (Hopscotch Films). He has been published in Newsweek, Politico Magazine, Huffington Post, NY Daily News, Police Chief Magazine, the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology and the NY Times. His recent book, “Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon and US Government Conspired to Torture” earned wide acclaim, and he is a contributing author of “The Psychology of Criminal Investigation: From Theory to Practice” and “Interrogation and Torture: Integrating Efficacy with Law and Morality,” (Oxford University Press, 2020), for which he also served as co-editor. www.markfallon.us