Deputy Commissioner Rebecca Ulam Weiner began her career with the NYPD in 2006, overseeing the department’s Counterterrorism Operations and Analysis Section, and developing an internationally recognized intelligence and threat-analysis program. She also served as the first representative of local law enforcement on the Director of National Intelligence's National Intelligence Council, where she focused on transnational crime and terrorism. Weiner also previously served as legal counsel to the NYPD Intelligence Bureau's Intelligence Analysis Unit and as team leader for the Middle East and North Africa, overseeing intelligence collection and analysis related to threats associated with those regions.
Most recently, Weiner became the civilian executive in charge of the NYPD’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau. There, she oversaw investigative, analytical, operational, and engagement efforts across the domains of counterterrorism, counterintelligence, criminal intelligence, violence mitigation, infrastructure and event protection, and geopolitical risk. She developed policies and strategic priorities for the Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau and publicly represented the NYPD in matters involving counterterrorism and intelligence.
Before joining the NYPD in 2006, Deputy Commissioner Weiner was an international security fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; a biotechnology consultant at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and a science & technology research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Weiner graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts in History & Literature, and she graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2005 with a Juris Doctorate. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia’s School for International and Public Affairs and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York in 2006.
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