Clare M. Lopez

Clare M. Lopez is the Vice President for Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy, a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Canadian Mackenzie Institute. In 2016, she was named to Senator Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign national security advisory team. She works with John Guandolo and Understanding the Threat to provide training on Islam, shariah, jihad, Iran/Hizballah, and the Muslim Brotherhood to Local Law Enforcement across the country. Since 2013, she has served as a member of the Citizens Commission on Benghazi. Formerly Vice President of the Intelligence Summit, she was a career operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, a professor at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies, Executive Director of the Iran Policy Committee from 2005-2006, and has served as a consultant and intelligence analyst/researcher for a variety of defense firms. She was named a 2011 Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute.