Robert Grenier is a highly decorated twenty-seven-year veteran of CIA’s Clandestine Service. He played central leadership roles in the greatest national security challenges of his generation—as CIA Station Chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan during 9/11, as CIA Mission Manager during the invasion of Iraq, and as the Head of CIA’s Global Counterterrorism Operations. Today he is chairman of ERG Partners, a strategic and financial advisory firm. A noted lecturer and television commentator, he is also a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the board of the CIA Officers’ Memorial Foundation. When not sailing, he resides with his family in the Washington DC area.