W. George Jameson is founder and principal of Jameson Consulting, a firm that advises corporate and Government clients and others on national and international security matters, operations, and governance.  He is an attorney, author, and lecturer on national security-related issues; an instructor at the Intelligence and Security Academy, LLC; and he is an adjunct staff member at the RAND Corporation.  

He  is the Chairman, Council on Intelligence Issues, a non-profit organization he co-founded in 2010 to educate the public on intelligence and other national security issues and to provide information about legal services available to CIA and other intelligence officers who may need assistance.

George retired from the Central Intelligence Agency after 33 years of Government service.  Awards include: Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal and CIA Director's Award.  

As the CIA’s first Director of the Office of Policy and Corporate Coordination, Office of the CIA Director (2006-2009), he established an integrated capability to resolve interagency policy matters and led CIA efforts on revision of Executive Order 12333 and implementation of Intelligence Community reform efforts.   

He previously served as the Senior Counsel for Intelligence Community Affairs in the CIA’s Office of General Counsel (2005-2006), advising on intelligence reform and implementation.   

In 2005, he set up and managed the Office of Legislative Affairs as the Interim Director in the newly established Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and as Senior Counsel established a legislation unit in the DNI’s Office of General Counsel.   

He also held the CIA position of Deputy Director, Office of Congressional Affairs (2003-2005) where he oversaw and led CIA’s legislative efforts. 

As Counsel to the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Community Management (2000-2003), he served as general counsel for the DCI’s management of budgetary, personnel, technical, and human collection programs.  

Throughout his career, George served in numerous senior attorney positions handling a broad range of legal, policy, and operational issues for CIA.  Positions included: Counsel to the Deputy Director for Operations; Counsel to the Deputy Director for Intelligence; Counsel to the Chief, Counterintelligence Center; and Chief, Litigation Division, which he led for five years.   

George also served on assignments as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia, Civil Division (1981) and Assistant Counsel to the President, handling financial disclosure matters (1986).  

George received his A.B. from Harvard College (cum laude) and his J.D. from the Marshall Wythe School of Law, William & Mary.   
 
He is a member of the Virginia and District of Columbia Bars; an advisor to the Advisory Committee, Standing Committee on Law and National Security of the American Bar Association;  a Member of the Steering Group for the National Security Law, Policy, and Practice Working Group of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, and a member of the ABA's Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.

George also is a Member of the Board of Governors of the CIA Retirees’ Association and President, Cotuit Inn Condominium Trust, Barnstable, Massachusetts.