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 multidisciplinary CSUF Graduate Certificate in Homeland Security Studies.  Currently, Dr. Ryan lectures in Intelligence and Political Violence for the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and also in Domestic and International Intelligence for the Graduate Program in Criminology.  In addition, he is designing a multi-disciplinary Graduate Certificate in Intelligence Studies to participate in the CSU - Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence.  Dr. Ryan addressed the World Terror Conference three times on various topics relating to Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence and recently he addressed the Counter-Terror Expo in London on International Counter-Terror Intelligence Policy Coordination and lectured in American Politics in Intelligence at Bletchley Park near London.

Before arriving at CSUF, Dr. Ryan 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. 

Dr. Ryan received his Philosophiae Doctoris 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. 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) among other government agencies in Europe and the US.                                                                     

Dr. Ryan has been published in criminal justice, intelligence, and law, and is a frequent speaker in counter-terror and intelligence at conferences in Europe and the United States.