Michael P. Dempsey is a former acting Director of National Intelligence, serving from January 20, 2017 to March 16, 2017.

In this role, he led the integration of the US intelligence community's 16 agencies.

Dempsey also regularly participated in National Security Council, Principal, and Deputy Committee meetings and presented congressional testimony.

Formerly CFR's National Intelligence Fellow, Dempsey published 45 articles in more than a dozen publications, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg, CNN, WIRED, Harvard Business Review, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

Dempsey is currently vice president of government affairs for space, cyber, and intelligence at Northrop Grumman.