Vice President, Defense Group Inc.'s Intelligence Division and Director, DGI, Center for Research and Analysis
About
James Mulvenon is Vice-President of Defense Group Inc.’s (DGI) Intelligence Division and Director of DGI’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis (CIRA). Dr. Mulvenon is an expert on the Chinese military and Chinese cyber issues, and has published widely on Chinese military affairs, party-army relations, C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, and reconnaissance), and nuclear weapons doctrine and organizations.
Among his professional affiliations, Dr. Mulvenon
is a founding member and current Chairman of the Board of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association, is presently a member of the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations, and was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations between 1999 and 2004. He is a regular commentator on both the Chinese military and cyber warfare in major U.S. print and TV media.
Dr. Mulvenon's book, Soldiers of Fortune (Sharpe, 2001) details the rise and fall of the Chinese military's multi-billion dollar international business empire. His more recent publications include Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernization (co-authored with William C. Hannas and Anna B. Puglisi; Routlege, 2013). Dr. Mulvenon graduated from the University of Michigan in 1991 with a degree in China Studies, holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and attended Fudan University in
Shanghai from 1991-1992. He is married to fellow Wolverine Mary Elizabeth Hampton of Bloomfield Hills, MI, and they live in Burke, Virginia with their daughters Kate and Ellie.
