Dr. Gary Ackerman is the CEO and Founder of Nemesys Insights. In this position, he leads the implementation of Nemesys Insights technologies into new domains. Dr. Ackerman has over two decades of expertise in strategic forecasting, risk assessment and human behavior modeling. He concurrently serves as an Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany, SUNY.

 

Dr. Ackerman’s work focuses on assessing emerging risks and understanding how adversaries make tactical, operational, and strategic decisions, particularly regarding innovating in their behaviors. He has developed several novel threat and risk assessment techniques to explore dynamic risks where there is little or no empirical record to work with. Much of his work in this area has been centered on the motivations and capabilities for non-state actors to acquire and use chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons, as well as other emerging technologies. In addition to his faculty position at Albany, Dr. Ackerman was the founding director of the Center for Advanced Red Teaming (CART).

 

As a recognized expert in the area of chemical threats, Ackerman was also recently appointed to serve as an expert on the Congressionally-mandated, Department of Defense-sponsored, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine-implemented Committee on Assessing and Improving Strategies for Preventing, Countering, and Responding to Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism, where he is serving on the sub-group focused on Chemical Threats.