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Robert L. Grenier
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Robert GrenierManaging Director of Business Intelligence and Investigations (BI & I), Kroll, Inc.
Robert L. Grenier is a managing director with wide-ranging responsibilities in the firm.Following a 27-year career with the CIA , Grenier has exceptional experience in global intelligence, security, foreign affairs, and strategic and covert operations.Throughout his career, Grenier has worked with all levels of government, from representing the CIA at the White House with the most senior officials responsible for national security to service in remote areas in third-world countries.
Grenier joined the CIA in January 1979 as a career trainee and was assigned to the Near East and South Asia Division.He spent 14 years in overseas assignments for this division, including multiple tours as chief of base and chief of station, most recently in Islamabad, Pakistan.His tenure with the CIA included assignments as the deputy national intelligence officer for Near East and South Asia on the National Intelligence Council and as a special assistant for Near East and South Asia to the undersecretary of state for political affairs.Grenier was instrumental in organizing the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division and served as its first chief of operations.He was responsible for coordinating all CIA analytic and operational activities in Iraq just prior to the March 2003 invasion and for the first 18 months of the counterinsurgency effort.He served extensively in Pakistan before and following the attacks of September 11 and for two years was the CIA's representative to the White House on Iraq.His most recent position was director of the Counter Terrorism Center (CTC), where he led the CIA's involvement in the Global War on Terror.
As chief of "The Farm," the CIA's basic training facility, Grenier was responsible for guiding and preparing all officers entering the CIA's clandestine service.
Grenier holds an AB in philosophy, with distinction, from Dartmouth College.He also attended the University of Virginia, where he studied Foreign Affairs.