Daniel Richard

Daniel L. Richard currently serves as the Associate Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation. Previously he served as the Director, Office of Cyber and Digital Policy in DDI, and prior to that he was Chief of Staff to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and CIA’s Senior Deputy General Counsel. As Senior Deputy General Counsel, he was responsible for overseeing all operational legal guidance and served as the Central Intelligence Agency’s Acting General Counsel from January to June 2017.

Mr. Richard was born and raised in Washington, D.C. He obtained his B.A. in History with an emphasis in Russian from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991. He went on to get his M.A. in National Security Studies from Georgetown University in 1992 and J.D. from George Washington University Law School in 1995. After graduating from law school, Mr. Richard served as a legislative assistant for a congressman from southern Florida before joining CIA in 1996 as an analyst. He transferred to CIA’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) in 1998. Recently, Mr. Richard graduated from the National War College here in Washington D.C. studying U.S. strategy towards China.

He is the 2014 recipient of OGC’s Stewart Award, OGC’s highest honor, and for more than a decade Mr. Richard has served as an Adjunct Law Professor at George Washington University Law School, teaching Intelligence Law. He has also been a guest lecturer at Georgetown University Law School and the National War College. He is married to his wife Amy, and they have two children.