Leadership.
Director
As the Director of the Irregular Warfare Center, Dr. Walters draws on more than three decades of operational and academic expertise to guide the Defense Department and the Interagency approach to conflict and competition, focusing on irregular warfare.
Deputy Director & Chief of Staff
Ms. Lori Leffler has more than 30 years of experience developing and implementing strategic visions to lead national security missions and corporate organizations. Her experience includes quantitative and qualitative analysis, management studies, and reviews. Lori’s extensive management and supervisory experience and her strategic planning […]
Chief of Operations
Chief Warrant Officer Three Erik Herr, U.S. Army, Retired, brings over 34 years of operational and strategic leadership and change management garnered from both military service and corporate America. Erik enlisted in the United States Army as an electronic warfare systems repairer in 1991 assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division and later to units in Stuttgart and Heidelberg, Germany […]
Chief of Faculty & Curriculum
Dr. Gardner is an Irregular Warfare / Comprehensive Defense Subject Matter Expert at the U.S. Irregular Warfare Center (IWC). For the IWC Dr. Gardner has been running events in front line nations helping them develop Comprehensive Defense capabilities, including planning national resistance efforts. He is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who served at all […]
Senior Advisor
Brig. Gen. Chris Burns, U.S. Army, Retired, commissioned in 1987 as distinguished graduate of the Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the University of Connecticut. Upon graduation, he transferred to the Rhode Island Army National Guard and began training to become a United States Army Special Forces Officer. He has successfully […]
Deputy Regional Advisor for
U.S. European Command and
U.S. Africa Command
Dr. Fabian is a former Hungarian Special Forces officer with 20 years of military experience. Dr. Fabian served in multiple national assignments including the senior Special Forces desk officer and advisor to the Hungarian Chief of Defense and […]
Deputy Regional Advisor for
U.S. Pacific Command and
U.S. Forces Korea
Dr. Joshua Hastey joins the IWC from Regent University, where he serves as Director of the MA in National Security Studies Program and the Ph.D. in Government program in the Robertson School of Government. He has taught at the U.S. Naval […]
Deputy Regional Advisor for
U.S. Central Command and
U.S. Southern Command
Dr. Mark Grzegorzewski is the Irregular Warfare Center’s CENTCOM/SOUTHCOM Deputy Regional Adviser. Outside of the role, he is also an Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity at Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) in the […]