Paul Kolbe

Senior Consultant, Advisory Board

Paul Kolbe is the Director of the Intelligence Project at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Relations. Paul served 25 years in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations in variety of foreign and domestic roles including as Chief of Station, Chief/Central Eurasia Division and Balkans Group Chief. His overseas assignments included operational and leadership roles in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa and Central Europe. He was a member of the Senior Intelligence Service and is a recipient of the Intelligence Medal of Merit and the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal. Following his CIA career, Paul was Director for Intelligence and Analysis at BP where he built a enterprise-wide intelligence capability focused on geo-political threat, strategic cyber threats and support to commercial operations. Clients included C-suite leadership, global business units, security networks and legal teams.