Michael A. Sheehan

Michael A. Sheehan (b. 1955) has had a 30 year career of distinguished public service. Sheehan graduated from West Point in 1977 and served as an officer in the Infantry and Special Forces. He had numerous overseas assignments; as a commander of a counter terrorism unit in Panama, as a counter insurgency advisor in El Salvador, as an Infantry company commander in Korea, and on peacekeeping duty in Somalia and Haiti. Also while on active duty, he served in the White House on the National Security Council staff for Presidents George H.W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton.

In 1998, he was appointed Coordinator for Counter Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and was confirmed by the US Senate as Ambassador at Large for this position in 1999.[1] Following an assignment as Assistant Secretary General at the UN in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (2001 to 2003) [2], Sheehan served as Deputy Commissioner of Counter Terrorism for the New York City Police Department until May of 2006.[3]

Sheehan has a Masters Degrees from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He is currently a partner in Torch Hill Investment Partners, a private equity group in New York City that specializes in the defense, intelligence and security sectors.[4] He is also a terrorism analyst for NBC News and a fellow at the NYU Center on Law and Security.[5]