NYPD
John Tully Gordon currently serves as Deputy Director for Strategic Intelligence Analysis with the New York City Police Department’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau. In this capacity, he supervises the work of several teams with specialized analytic and investigative missions. With the aim of understanding how complex global crises and incidents abroad impact safety and security on the local level, John leads analysts who support the NYPD’s network of international and domestic liaison officers, while triaging threats and leads received from the public every day.
He is grateful to work alongside a group of dedicated public servants responsible for providing timely, accurate, and actionable decision advantage to the NYPD's more than 33,000 police officers, executive leadership, and public/private-sector security partners on a wide range of national security, terrorism, and targeted violence-related issues.
John received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Fordham University in International Political Economy/Political Science and earned a master’s degree in Security Studies from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
He is the co-author of Light Pierces Through: An NYPD Reflection on Loss & Lessons Learned 20 Years after 9/11, which was published in Police Chief Magazine in September 2021, and continues to be shared with new audiences every year.
