Dr. Kenneth James Ryan, California State University - Fresno, Department of Criminology, is a specialist in international criminal intelligence and police management, applying comparative political science methodologies to criminal justice problems.  He serves as Criminology Department Coordinator of International Programs for the College of Social Sciences and was the first CSUF Program Facilitator for the Joint Doctorate in Forensic and Behavioral Sciences with the University of California, Davis.  Dr. Ryan is a member of the University of Oxford (UK) Round Table in Criminal Law and Justice.  He also has presented contemporary research in European criminal intelligence and has been published in international law, terrorism, and public policy at the University of Oxford.  Dr. Ryan is a plank-holder with the CSU Chancellor's Office Affinity Group, the California Emergency Management - Homeland Security (CEMHS) Program and Lead Curriculum Designer for the CSUF Graduate Certificate in Homeland Security Studies.  In addition, Dr. Ryan is designing a multi-disciplinary Graduate Certificate in Intelligence Studies to participate in the CSU Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence. 

Before arriving at CSUF, Dr. Ryan instructed counter-terror, intelligence and global organized crime studies at Washington University in St. Louis and at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.  Additionally, he has lectured at other colleges and universities in police science, criminology, 
              Dr. Ryan at Oxford           criminal justice, international relations and political science, and lectured at more than 30 police academies.  He has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of STS International, LLC, a firm engaged in developing intelligence structures (organizational solutions) and intelligence systems (operational solutions) for government and industry with clients in the US, Europe and the Middle East, and serving 2 of the top 5 US defense contractors. Dr. Ryan has served as a board member of 5 corporations, 3 of which he served as chief executive, including 2 non-profits, 2 technical consulting firms and a scientific research firm.  Dr. Ryan also serves as a private consultant in fiscal management of government intelligence and as a contract consultant in intelligence and counter- and anti-terrorism. 

A retired law enforcement executive, Dr. Ryan conducted investigations and intelligence operations reaching to 5 continents serving as an officer, investigator, agent, supervisor, manager and Special Agent in Charge in his government career.  He served with two government agencies engaged in white collar crime and counter-organized crime operations, including as Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of a criminal investigation bureau serving a regional population of 4 million in eastern Missouri. As SAC he managed an international organized crime smuggling and money-laundering investigation yielding indictments of 17 defendants on over 100 felony counts.  As an investigator he was involved in an international securities fraud investigation yielding the largest single case recovery in the state’s history.  Beginning his career in urban law enforcement, Dr. Ryan supervised crew and police patrol operations. A recipient of ten departmental commendations, Dr. Ryan also has been decorated for Meritorious Service. He served two years as a statewide police academy instructor, course designer and training coordinator and, thereafter, as director of a state university-based police academy. In 1995 the Missouri Police Officers Standards and Training (POST) Commission recognized him as its Outstanding Leader in Law Enforcement Education.

Dr. Ryan received his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in Interdisciplinary Studies in Political Science, where he focused on political violence and comparative politics with area studies in Europe and the Middle East.  [The Washington University Department of Political Science is ranked #1 nationally by the Chronicle of Higher Education.]  Additionally, he received an Artium Magistri (Master of Arts) in International Affairs from Washington University in St. Louis and a dual Master of Arts degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. His Bachelor of Science degree is in Law Enforcement Management from Tarkio College. In 1999 and 2000, he was nominated by the US State Department, Committee for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) to receive the J. William Fulbright Award for Police Studies in Europe. Dr. Ryan’s recent research has focused on the comparative politics of international / transnational criminal intelligence, particularly in counter-organized crime and counter-terror. He also has conducted funded research in post-war Iraqi governance and prepared statistical exhibits and models for UN Security Council reports on French-speaking Africa.  Dr. Ryan has conducted funded research at Cambridge University, New Scotland Yard, the (UK) National Criminal Intelligence Service, Interpol, Europol, Eurojust, the Generalstaatsanwaltschaft – Berlin, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), and the Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt (LKA)                             Dr. Ryan at the Louvre
among other government agencies in Europe and the US.

Dr. Ryan has been published in criminal justice, intelligence, and law, and his textbook Criminal Intelligence in the European Union is expected to be released soon.