Richard A. Falkenrath (born March 25, 1969) was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Counter-Terrorism of the New York City Police Department on July 10, 2006. He is the third person to hold this position. His predecessors were Lt. Gen. Frank Libutti (USMC, ret.) and Amb. Michael Sheehan.
Falkenrath is a summa cum laude graduate of Occidental College, with degrees in economics and international relations. He holds a Ph.D from the Department of War St...
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Richard A. Falkenrath (born March 25, 1969) was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Counter-Terrorism of the New York City Police Department on July 10, 2006. He is the third person to hold this position. His predecessors were Lt. Gen. Frank Libutti (USMC, ret.) and Amb. Michael Sheehan.
Falkenrath is a summa cum laude graduate of Occidental College, with degrees in economics and international relations. He holds a Ph.D from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, where he was a British Marshall Scholar.
From September 1993 until December 2000, Falkenrath worked at the Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, first as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; then as Executive Director of the Center; and finally as Assistant Professor of Public Policy.
Additionally, during this time he was founder and co-Principal Investigator of the Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness; a member of the Advisory...
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