ILEA director to speak at Rotary

Brian Wood, director of the International Law Enforcement Academy-Roswell, will speak to the Roswell Rotary Club on Oct. 19.

He currently is a supervisory special agent in the Diplomatic Security Service, joining the Department of State in 2002.

He was named director of ILEA-Roswell on May 1, 2021.

Wood formerly served as the senior regional security officer (RSO) at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, as well as chief of the Protective Operations Division for the RSO in Baghdad; RSO in Maputo, Mozambique; team leader in the Office of Mobile Security Deployments; RSO in Conakry, Guinea; and ARSO in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Islamabad, Pakistan.

Domestically he served as a team leader with Diplomatic Security’s Mobile Security Deployment Teams and as the DSS Liaison to U.S. Special Operations Command before joining ILEA-Roswell.

A New Jersey native, Wood holds degrees from the University of Texas, Alderson-Broaddus College, and the U.S. Naval War College, where he attended as an Inter-Agency Representative.

Prior to joining the Foreign Service and continuing through January 2021, Wood served in the U.S. Army, the Army National Guard, and the U.S. Army Reserve for 37 years as an NCO and commissioned officer before retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

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