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 As Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism at the Manhattan Institute, R. P. Eddy founded and is Executive Director of the Center for Policing Terrorism (CPT) which focuses on the role of police in the fight against terror. Eddy is also CEO of Ergo, a global advisory firm which crafts custom solutions from the insights of frontline experts. CPT leverages a global network of premier counterterrorism experts and brings their collective experience to bear on the counterterror challenges of a core group of state and local law enforcement agencies. Eddy has worked with the New York Police Department, Los Angeles Police Department, the Greek Government, the United Nations and various multinational corporations on terrorism and security issues. He is a founding member of ICTAC—The International Counter-Terrorism Academic Community. Previously, Eddy served in various posts in the US Government National Security arena and as an United Nations Diplomat. Eddy was last Senior Policy Officer to United Nations Secretary-General where, amongst other work, he helped lead the Secretary-General's initiatives to mobilize an international response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He was also a Managing Director at Gerson Lehrman Group and an executive at The Monitor Group. Prior to joining the UN, Eddy served variously as Director of Counterterrorism at the White House National Security Council; Chief of Staff to the US Ambassador to the UN, Richard Holbrooke; Senior Advisor for Intelligence and Counterterrorism to the Secretary of Energy, and as an US representative to international negotiations including the creation of the International Criminal Court and peace negotiations in Angola and Rwanda. Eddy is a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, the co-chair of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Counterterrorism Committee, was awarded two Leland Fellowships, was selected as a Manfred-Wörner Scholar and as a Evangelische Akademie scholar. Eddy was selected by the Center for American Progress and Foreign Policy Magazine as one of "100 of America's most esteemed terrorism and national security experts." He regularly appears on global news stations and has been a commentator on Fox News: The O’Reilly Factor, PBS: Charlie Rose, CNN: Anderson Cooper 360, NPR radio and many others. His writing has been published in The Times of London, The National Review Online and other papers. Eddy has a BS in Neuroscience from Brown University. New York's State Of Mind: Out of the Twin Towers' ashes, NYPD is building a world-class terror-fighting machine, By Anya Sostek, Securing the Homeland: A Special Report from Governing Magazine and Congressional Quarterly, October, 2004 RP Eddy was selected by the Center for American Progress and Foreign Policy Magazine as one of "100 of America's most esteemed terrorism and national security experts" and participated in their Terrorism Index study of June, 2006. On August 11, 2006, R.P. Eddy offered his thoughts to a National Review online symposium on the failed London airline terror plot. On September 8, 2006, R.P. Eddy participated in the Council on Foreign Relations symposium, "Making New York Safer". [VIDEO] R.P. Eddy offered comments on Intelligence Fusion Centers in a February 27, 2007 Council on Foreign Relations piece.
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