Ms. Carol Dumaine

Strategic Advisor

Ms. Dumaine is a confidential senior advisor for strategic design to the President of Global Strategic Analysis, LLC. She has thirty years of experience in intelligence analytic research, where she has been a leader in applying advanced analytic methodologies, such as scenario planning, to create new strategic value for stakeholders. For the first half of her government career, Ms. Dumaine served as an all-source intelligence analyst and manager at the Central Intelligence Agency, preparing reports and presentations for senior policymakers in the U.S. and abroad. In addition, she has been a pioneer in government through her application of the principles of strategic design to “big picture” systemic challenges in assessing emerging global security challenges.

Ms. Dumaine has created and overseen several collaborative interdisciplinary analytic partnerships in the international security community, including the Global Futures Partnership, the first ‘think-and-do tank” at the Central Intelligence Agency to expand unclassified global outreach.

Ms. Dumaine also is the Founding Director of the Global Futures Forum, which connects analysts in unclassified multinational “communities of practice” to enhance awareness about a rapidly changing global security environment for improved decision-maker support. In addition, while serving as the head of the Energy and Environmental Security Directorate in the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy (2007-2010), Ms. Dumaine spearheaded the development of the Global Energy and Environmental Strategic Ecosystem (Global EESE)—an international initiative harnessing social media and scenario methodology to create unclassified strategic environmental intelligence capabilities.

Currently Ms. Dumaine, who retired from federal government service in June 2013, is the owner of Big Picture Security, LLC and works as an independent writer and consultant.

Ms. Dumaine has been a featured speaker on topics as diverse as climate security, resilience, and human security and natural resource issues at forums in the United States, Canada and Europe. She is a co-editor of New Frontiers for Intelligence Analysis: Shared Threats, Diverse Perspectives and New Communities (2005) and the author of “Creating a Global Foresight Commons” and “Common Security, Uncommon Challenges: Resiliency in an Age of the Unthinkable.”Ms. Dumaine was recognized as a 2007 National Security Medal Finalist by the Partnership for Public Service’s “Service-to-America” program for her leadership in creating the Global Futures Forum.

Ms. Dumaine holds a Masters in International Public Policy (M.I.P.P.) from the Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Science from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Email: carol.dumaine@gmail.com