President and CEO

Analytic Services, Inc.

 

 

Dr. Ruth David is president and chief executive officer of Analytic Services Inc., a nonprofit research institute focusing on national security, homeland security and public safety issues.  David initiated a corporate focus on homeland security in 1999 and established the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security early in 2001. Today the corporation operates the Homeland Security Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, in addition to the ANSER business unit.  Before assuming her current position in 1998, David was deputy director for science and technology at the Central Intelligence Agency.  As technical advisor to the director of central intelligence, she was responsible for research, development, and deployment of technologies in support of all phases of the intelligence process. 

 

David is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and currently serves on the NAE Council as well as several committees of the National Research Council (NRC). She chairs the NRC Standing Committee on Technology Insight—Gauge, Evaluate, and Review (TIGER). She is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, first established to advise the president, and now advising the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.  David also serves on the National Security Agency Advisory Board, the Hertz Foundation Board, the Wichita State University Foundation National Advisory Committee, and is a member of the Draper Corporation.  Previously, David served in several leadership positions at the Sandia National Laboratories, where she began her professional career in 1975.  David received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Wichita State University, a master of science degree and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University.