Jami Miscik
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Jami Miscik (1958-) is Vice-Chairman of Kissinger Associates and member of the board of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was previously Global Head of Sovereign Risk at Lehman Brothers; before that, she was a U.S. intelligence professional. She told an interviewer that an undergraduate experience brought her into analysis, both intelligence and financial. "When I was an undergraduate at Pepperdine University, in Malibu, California, I volunteered to tutor in a maximum security prison for juvenile offenders..." She was working with a 16-year-old involved in a drive-by shooting. "One day, I asked him how he decided which gang to join: Was it based on where he lived, where he went to school, or what? He floored me when he said, "Oh, I just joined the one my mother was in."
IndustrySpeaking of her career, she told an interviewer that she had originally planned on banking. "...After I got my Masters degree at the University of Denver's School of International Studies, I ditched the idea of a New York banking career to join the CIA. I stayed 22 years. Now that I'm at Lehman Brothers, I realize that I have invaluable international perspective. How strange that it started with a wayward kid in the Santa Monica Mountains."[1] At Lehman Brothers, her job was forecasting world events that might affect financial markets. In one case, she predicted calm after a North Korean nuclear test, but, with respect to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's boasts about nationalization were generally dismissed, she warned, "He really means this." She predicted an acceleration of his program to nationalize industries: "He'll be doing things bigger, bolder."[2] IntelligenceCentral Intelligence AgencyShe was Deputy Director for Intelligence, the head of the analytical side of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2002 to 2005, with a close professional relationship to George Tenet. Miscik complained to Tenet, before the Iraq War, of White House pressure to give them justification of a specific link between Iraq and al-Qaeda.
In a 2004 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report, however, it was suggested she bowed to politics enough to recommend "stretching to the limit" the available evidence of the connection. [4] National Security CouncilShe was Director for Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration from 1995 to 1996. References
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