Corporate Officers
IAFIE President
Ms. Katherine Hibbs Pherson
CEO, Globalytica
CEO, VEXAS Global Foundation
Co-Founder and Consultant, Pherson Associates
Kathy Pherson teaches advanced analytic techniques and critical thinking skills to analysts in government, academia, and the private sector and consults to the government on planning, security, and analysis projects. She and Randy Pherson are co-authors of Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence, 3rd ed. (2021). She serves as vice chair of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance’s (INSA) Security Policy Reform Council and supports the US Government’s Trusted Workforce 2.0 (TW 2.0) transformation initiative.
Ms. Pherson in 2000 completed a 27-year career with CIA in intelligence and security analysis and resource management. Her leadership in security led to the adoption of a risk management methodology, strengthening and implementation of overseas security countermeasures, and improvements in dealing with unsolicited contacts. Ms. Pherson holds MA degrees in Spanish Linguistics and Latin American Studies and in Communications and is a recipient of CIA's Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal and the Intelligence Community’s National Distinguished Service Medal.
IAFIE Vice President, Membership
Mr. Robin Lobb
Georgian College, Canada
Robin Lobb is president of Zeroes & Ones Inc (Zoinc). He has served on numerous boards of directors and lectured at several universities and colleges over 30 years, including teaching in the research analyst and big data graduate programs at Georgian College. He currently serves as chair of the program advisory committees for the graduate programs in big data, AI and mobile app development. Work includes consulting on the Urban Flashpoints project at the CIA and lectures on the future of intelligence as it relates to big data, AI and quantum computing. He has been working on membership development at IAFIE since 2023.
IAFIE Treasurer
Dr. Charles Gallagher
Boston College
Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., is Professor of History at Boston College. His book Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII (New Haven: Yale UP, 2008) won the American Catholic Historical Association’s John Gilmary Shea Prize. Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front was published by Harvard University Press and won a 2022 Catholic Media Association Book Award in History. He studies and writes on the intersection of intelligence and religion, religion and right-wing movements, the Holocaust, and Vatican diplomacy. Gallagher will hold the Francis C. Wade Chair at Marquette University in 2024-2025.