Normal Roule
Former Senior CIA Official

Norman Roule served for 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, where he directed numerous programs focused on the Middle East. Within the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, he served in a number of senior intelligence roles in Washington and abroad and completed more than 15 years of overseas service in the Middle East. From November 2008 to September 2017, Mr. Roule served as National Intelligence Manager for Iran at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In that capacity, he was the Intelligence Community’s senior official responsible for coordinating national intelligence policy and activities related to Iran, including engagement with senior policymakers at the National Security Council, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and Congress. During this period, he also conducted multiple Presidential briefings, and his service was recognized with multiple national intelligence honors, including Presidential awards. Since retiring from government service, he has advised private-sector clients on political, security, military, economic, telecommunications, and energy developments across the region, with particular emphasis on the Gulf Cooperation Council states and Iran, while maintaining close relationships with multiple senior political and economic officials across the GCC. Mr. Roule is also a Non-Resident Senior Adviser with the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; a Senior Adviser at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School; a Non-Resident Fellow at the George Mason University National Security Institute; and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.