Lightning Round: The Terrorism Liaison Officer Program

Randy Wagner is the Deputy Director of the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) located in San Francisco, CA. In this capacity, Mr. Wagner oversees and manages personnel assigned to the NCRIC’s Terrorism Liaison Officer Outreach Program (TLOOP), Private Sector Outreach, Cyber Security, and Strategy, Infrastructure, and Analysis (SIA) Teams. Mr. Wagner also serves as the National Chair for the National Fusion Center Association’s (NFCA) Fusion Center Liaison Officer (FLO) Program. Prior to Mr. Wagner’s position at NCRIC, he had a diverse twenty-nine (29) year law enforcement career as a Senior Supervisory Special Agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and former Police Officer for the City of Atlanta, Georgia Police Department. 

Mr. Wagner’s last assignment with DEA was as the Assistant Regional Director of DEA’s Middle East Region located in Ankara, Turkey. In this assignment, Deputy Director Wagner was responsible for the managerial oversight and enforcement operations in eleven (11) DEA Country Offices located in Kabul, Afghanistan, Moscow, Russia, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Islamabad, Pakistan, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Tbilisi, Georgia, New Delhi, India, Nicosia, Cyprus, Ankara, and Istanbul, Turkey. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Wagner was assigned to DEA’s Office of Professional Responsibility, Resident Agent in Charge of the DEA Santa Rosa, CA Office, where he also served as the Northern California High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Initiative Commander, Group Supervisor of a HIDTA Enforcement Group in Honolulu, Hawaii, and DEA Marijuana Eradication Coordinator for the State of Hawaii. Mr. Wagner began his DEA career assigned to the El Paso, Texas Field Division after graduating from the DEA Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia. 

Mr. Wagner has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Alabama and a Master of Public Administration Degree from the University of West Georgia. 

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Kimberly Pratt joined the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) as its Director of Private Sector Engagement in November 2021. Previously, she was the Executive Director of the FBI-affiliated InfraGard National Members Alliance for nearly five years, after having been on its national board for two years and serving in a variety of other national and local volunteer leadership positions. She got her start in security and politics working for the Japanese Mission to the United Nations in Vienna, Austria as a speechwriter on nuclear safety and weapons proliferation, where she also served as the program manager for the international Nuclear Suppliers Group. Later, Kim was a WMD terrorism researcher for the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey and worked for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, Czech Republic helping to manage Radio Free Afghanistan and to provide political analysis and reporting. She published articles for newspapers and academic journals on topics related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and security in the Middle East and Central Asia. Kim also worked in information security at high-tech companies Solectron and Palm, and Wells Fargo Bank. She graduated from the University of California San Diego (BA in History) and Georgetown University (MA in National Security Studies). She has lived and worked in Austria, the Czech Republic, France, and Japan, and speaks French and German fluently.