Lieutenant General Scott D. Berrier is a nonresident senior fellow at the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative within the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a senior vice president in the intelligence and national security sector with Booz Allen Hamilton. He is an intelligence and national security expert with over forty years of experience at all levels within the US Department of Defense and intelligence community.

He has extensive experience at the tactical, operational, strategic levels as a senior intelligence officer within the US Army. He commanded intelligence units at all levels from company through senior mission commander and served as the forty-sixth Army G2. His joint experience includes leading intelligence staffs at US Forces Korea, US Central Command, and US Forces Afghanistan. His wartime experience includes service with the 75th Ranger Regiment for Operation Just Cause in Panama; four tours with various units for Operation Enduring Freedom and Resolute Support in Afghanistan; and one tour with III Corps during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In Berrier’s last assignment, he served as the twenty-second director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and transformed it to focus on strategic competition and the pacing threat.

He holds an MSS from the United States Army War College, an MS in general studies from Central Michigan University, and a BS in history from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Berrier and his spouse settled in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and focus on family, equestrian activity, and home improvement.