David Gutschmit

Focus areas: Intelligence, National Security, Asia

David Gutschmit retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 2018 after over 37 years as an Operations Officer and manager in the Directorate of Operations (DO).  He held numerous management positions at CIA and elsewhere in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC).  He served as National Counterintelligence Officer for East Asia at the National Counterintelligence Executive, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 2011-13; and as an Assistant Section Chief in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, 2010 – 11.   Mr. Gutschmit was the George H.W. Bush Professor of National Intelligence at the U.S. Naval War College, 2013-16.  He completed five overseas assignments with the DO in East and Southeast Asia and in Europe.  

In addition to his service with the CIA and IC.  Mr. Gutschmit has been an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service since 2012, where he has taught graduate courses on the U.S. – China relationship, comparative intelligence systems, and economic espionage.  He is an Adjunct Instructor at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs, teaching a graduate seminar on the relationship between intelligence and economic power. Mr. Gutschmit graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in Foreign Service in 1980.  He obtained a Masters’ Degree in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies in 1994. 

Education

• MIPP, International Public Policy, JHU/SAIS
• BSFS, Foreign Service, Georgetown University