Pamir appoints James Mulvenon as new Chief Intelligence Officer

We are delighted to announce that James Mulvenon, Ph.D. has joined Pamir in the newly created role of Chief Intelligence Officer.

A Chinese linguist by training, Dr Mulvenon is a prominent international expert on Chinese cyber, technology transfer, espionage, and policy issues.   He has spent the last thirty years building teams of Chinese linguist-analysts to support the objectives of a wide range of commercial and government customers.

James will be growing and leading Pamir’s experienced teams of Chinese linguist-analysts and subject matter experts to provide advisory and strategic services to Pamir’s commercial clients, as well as providing expertise to help them combat insider threats, data loss, and other counterintelligence challenges.

He will also be expanding Pamir's government consulting business, bringing its unique combination of Chinese data and analytics to sponsors across a wide range of government agencies. 

Despite the ongoing tensions between China and the USA, and the upcoming US Presidential elections, China still offers significant market and investment opportunities, as discussed in this recent blog: Investing in China. Minimizing risk and maximizing opportunities.

However, having operations within China also brings risk and complexity, which means that US companies need to make well-informed decisions. With Pamir’s help, and James’ team of linguistic experts, successful outcomes are highly achievable.

James said, “I have long admired Pamir Consulting as a top-tier strategic advisory services firm, founded by former senior government officials whom I respect. I joined Pamir because I see the company’s tremendous potential to become a leading source of insight for both commercial and government customers who need to stay on-top and ahead of the complex challenges of competing with China in the global economy.”

James joined Pamir from Peraton Labs, formerly Bell Labs, which invented many of the key technologies in the modern information and communications economy at Peraton Labs, he helped its engineers customize the company’s cutting-edge technologies for competition with China and helped introduce Peraton Lab’s products and services across government agencies.

Prior to this James was Director of Exovera’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis providing unique knowledge and insight on the complex geopolitical issues created by China using open-source and publicly available information. He has also held senior research and analyst roles at SOS International, Defense Group Inc and RAND.

James is regularly invited to address senior government, military, and commercial audiences on various issues relating to China, and his comments have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and other international media outlets.

In 2013, he co-authored Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation, which was the first full account of the complete range of China’s efforts to illicitly acquire foreign technology, and contributed multiple chapters to China’s Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage, which was published by Georgetown University in September 2020.

James received his B.A. in China Studies from the University of Michigan, studied Communist Party History at Fudan University in Shanghai, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

His doctoral thesis focused on the Chinese military’s international business empire and was published in 2000 by Routledge Press titled Soldiers of Fortune: The Rise of the Chinese Military-Business Complex, 1978-1988.