Game Education Summit North America

He is a retired Foreign Area Officer with the US Army who specializes in national security matters. He has served as a defense and legal attaché to various US embassies and missions in Europe. He has also served in various intelligence or intelligence related billets including the S-2 to the 559^th Artillery Group in Vicenza, Italy, Attaché to the Office of the Legal Counselor in The Hague; and Chief of European Analysis at the Directorate of Intelligence, EUCOM, in Stuttgart.

He holds a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina, an MA (Russian and East European Studies) from Florida State University and a BBA (Accounting) from the University of Notre Dame.  Kris is also the author of The Warning Solution: Intelligent Analysis in the Age of Information Overload and co-author of Structured Analysis of Competing Hypotheses: Theory And Application

His current research interests include using games and simulations to help teach the principles of intelligence analysis.