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Randolph P. Eddy

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Randolph Post “R.P.” Eddy is a former diplomat and counter-terrorism chief.[1][2][3] He was a former White House National Security Council Director, chief of staff for United Nations Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Senior UN Policy Officer to General Secretary Kofi Annan.[4][5][6] Through his work on the National Security Council he helped develop the first White House pandemic response plan.[7] He would go on to create policy at the UN that formed the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.[8][9] After September 11th, through his position as a senior fellow in the Manhattan Institute, he went on to help develop the counter-teriorism program for the NYPD as well as lay groundwork for similar types of programs employed in other cities. He has been a contributor on the topics of national security, counter-terrorism and global financial markets for FOX News, CNN, PBS Newshour, Charlie Rose and NPR. Currently he is both founder and CEO of the security and intelligence private consulting company Ergo.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

Background[edit]

Born in 1974 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania Eddy attended Groton and the University School of Milwaukee.[17][18] He went on to study Neuroscience at Brown University including a football scholarship.[19] In 1994 he became one of the first Fellows at the humanitarian organization Mickey Leland Hunger Program where he was involved in logistics and programming to relieve hunger in the Dayton, Ohio region. His initial background in pursuing the interests of medical science (studying neuroscience) as well as advocating for public policies and service (Hunger Fellow) would go on to inform the direction of his career addressing solutions to global crises.[20]

Government and Global Policy Work[edit]

In 1996 Eddy joined the White House as a staff member of the National Security Council in the Clinton administration helping develop a presidential directive that set the road map for dealing with humanitarian crises when U.S. troops are employed in peace-keeping efforts.[21] Additionally he would help form the 1996 White House pandemic response plan.[22][23] While serving with the NSC There he met his future co-author Richard Clarke.[24] He would later become the Director of White House National Security Council.[25].

Eddy left the White House in 1999 to join the United States Mission to the UN as Richard Holbrooke’s chief of staff. After serving there he would becomes the senior policy officer to Secretary-General Annan.[26] Eddy helps develop policy for the global AIDS crisis relief in particular in the African Continent.[27][28] After experiencing resistance in discussing or acknowledging AIDS epidemic during diplomatic interaction involving political and military leaders Eddy developed the idea for a “UN Special Envoy for AIDS cooperation” which helped officially recognize the solutions needed to address the epidemic.[29][30] This helped lay the groundwork for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1308 and what would become the Global Fund to Prevent AIDS which is now known as The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.[31][32][33]

Sometime after 2001 Eddy joins the think tank the Manhattan Institute and became the Senior Fellow of Counter-Terrorism.[34]. After the September 11th attacks then Mayor Michael Bloomberg recruited Police commissioner Ray Kelly to create a division within the NYPD specifically for counter terrorism. One of Kelly’s deputies for this was Michael Sheehan who knew Eddy from their work with the United Nations and White House National Security Council.[35] Sheehan was invited to the Manhattan Institute through his connection with Eddy and his background with the National Security Council and UN. [36][37] The result was the formation in 2002 of the Center for Tactical Counterterrorism (CTCT) which later became in 2006 Center for Policing Terrorism (CPT)[38] Eddy would go on to advise other cities about counter-terrorism practices developing the “First Responders” concept as a way to practically cultivate and utilize counter-terrorism intelligence via local Fire, Police and Emergency Responders.[39][40] He was also the Co-Chairman of the Los Angeles City Counter Terrorism Commission.[41] Working with the United States Secretary of Energy he assisted in overseeing efforts to combat espionage in US nuclear laboratories and assisted in designing and negotiating the creation of the US National Nuclear Safety Agency.[42]. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations where he has spoken frequently in discussions on counter-terrorism and urban security.[43]

Private Sector[edit]

In 2006 Eddy founded the security and intelligence consulting company Global Precision Research, LLC shortly thereafter known as Ergo.[44] Ergo’s services come from of Eddy’s combined background in national security, business and global intelligence.[45][46][47] In 2016 Ergo was hired by Uber to secretly investigate plaintiffs involved in a class action lawsuit. Ergo operatives posed as acquaintances of the plaintiff's counsel and tried to contact their associates to obtain information that could be used against them. The result of which was found out causing the judge to throw out evidence obtained as obtained in a fraudulent manner.[48][49]

During the 2020 presidential campaign Eddy was a co-signer of a letter from the National Security Leaders for Biden critizing President Donald Trump.[50] In 2022 he co-authored a report for transitioning out of the COVID-19 pandemic with former White House Coronavirus Task Force members titled the "COVID-19 Road Map".[51][52]

Publications[edit]

In 2017 Eddy co-authored Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes with former United States intelligence and counterterrorism official Richard A. Clarke.[53] Premised on the idea that people can look for patterns and signals in the present day that will act as “Casandras” or forecasting signs for future and immediate disasters. Casandra concept is based on the Greek myth of a Greek princess who was endowed with “the ability to see impending doom, but the inability to persuade anyone to believe in her.” [54] The book offers a framework, "The Cassandra Coefficient," to help determine which warnings decisions makers should look into more closely, and if some warnings deserve less attention. The case studies range from national security, to threatening technologies, to the global economy, to climate change and speculates on various potential threats to civilization. Their research is based on interviews with experts in fields such as the environment, financial markets, disease and energy.[55] They have also started a foundation to reward annual prizes to present day “Cassandras”.[56]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Temple-Raston, Dina (January 13, 2021). "Why Didn't The FBI And DHS Produce A Threat Report Ahead of The Capitol Insurrection?". npr.org. NPR. Retrieved July 14, 2022. The problem was that the threats they uncovered hadn't gone through any rigorous analysis process. "They seem to have only had a couple or single sourcing," said R.P. Eddy, a former U.S. counterterrorism official and diplomat who now runs Ergo, a private intelligence firm. "So, if you were a consumer of that intelligence and that's all you saw ... you'd say, 'Oh, it's just one source. You know, I'm not so sure I'm going to invest $2 million into extra overtime and get a bunch of new gear for my troops."
  2. ↑ Jenkins, Simon (July 10, 2005). "Weve globalised terror but the solution is local". thetimes.co.uk. The Times of London. Retrieved August 8, 2022. The sane response to urban terrorism is to regard it as an avoidable accident, the doings of madmen. Fanatics and psychopaths have long been inclined to urban mayhem. Gracing them with a politico-religious cause merely awards them spurious legitimacy, as “political status” did the IRA. It aids their fundraising and recruitment. Accordingly I prefer the response given in The Times on Friday by RP Eddy, the former American counter-terrorism chief. He pleaded for less searching for panoptic international remedies and more attention to “first preventers”, to stopping the terrorist by better policing on the ground.
  3. ↑ North, Anna (January 12, 2021). "What far-right extremists have planned for inauguration weekend". vox.com. Vox. Retrieved August 12, 2022. “There needs to be a call for great preparation [...] and great restraint by police officers” in the weeks ahead, R.P. Eddy, a counterterrorism expert and CEO of the intelligence firm Ergo, told Vox. “They’re going to get tested again.”
  4. ↑ "Hearing Before The Subcommittee On Intelligence, Information Sharing, And Terrorism Risk Assessment of the Committee On Homeland Security House Of Representatives One Hundred Tenth Congress Second Session". govinfo.gov. United States Government Publishing Office (GPO). May 15, 2008. Retrieved July 4, 2022. Our third witness, R.P. Eddy, is a senior fellow for counterterrorism at the Manhattan Institute and the executive director for the Center for Policing Terrorism, CPT. He is also CEO of Ergo Advisors. Mr. Eddy has worked with the NYPD, LAPD, the Greek Government, the United Nations, and various multinational corporations on terrorism and security issues. He is founding member of the International Counterterrorism Academic Community. Previously, Mr. Eddy was senior policy officer to the U.N. Secretary General, as director the counterterrorism at the White House National Security Council, chief of staff to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke; senior advisor for intelligence and counterterrorism to the Secretary of Energy; and a U.S. representative to international negotiations, including the creation of the International Criminal Court.
  5. ↑ Brandom, Russell; Hawkins, Andrew (July 10, 2016). "How Uber secretly investigated its legal foes — and got caught". theverge.com. The Verge. Retrieved July 14, 2022. Randolph Post "R.P." Eddy, has a long history of work in both counterterrorism and diplomacy. He served as director of counterterrorism at the White House National Security Council during the Clinton administration, chief of staff to US Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke, and senior policy officer for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Eddy helped found the New York Police Department’s counterterrorism center, serves on numerous boards and think tanks, and has appeared frequently on national television in his capacity as an expert on terrorism.
  6. ↑ "Author R.P. Eddy". Harper Collins Publisher. Retrieved July 14, 2022. R.P. Eddy, is the CEO of Ergo, one of the world's leading intelligence firms. His multi-decade career in national security includes serving as Director at the White House National Security Council, as a senior US and UN diplomat, and he current advises intelligence agencies, major corporations and investors. He resides in Greenwich, Connecticut.
  7. ↑ Feldbaum, Harley (2009). "The HIV-AIDS national security nexus : a history of risks and benefits". The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. London: LSHTM Research Online: 251. doi:10.17037/PUBS.00682417. Partially in response to this Ebola outbreak, and partly due to high levels of public attention to the threat of emerging diseases, U. S. President Clinton issued a Presidential Review Directive (PRD) in 1995 directing the U. S. National Security Council (NIC) to 125 study American vulnerability to bioterrorism. 17 R. P. Eddy ran the PRD in 1995 and describes the process as follows: I ran this interagency process with the CIA, OED and all the other agencies to try and get them to help us understand what the President, basically what the threat was. So the PRD is first, it lets us just see what we are doing and what assets we have and what your options are. And the PDD, Presidential Decision Directive, is the President then saying, `Well based on what we've done, here's what we're gonna do. '(R. P. Eddy Interview) Eddy confirms that the origins of the PRD lay with the Kikwit outbreak and increasing public concern about emerging diseases. The PRD was basically initiated because of the Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire, but also a feeling, there was a movie called "Outbreak" with Dustin Hoffman - and a book called "The Hot Zone" - so there was this, sort of, awareness that potentially microbes could be a potential security issue" (Eddy Interview). During the PRD, Eddy had a prescient conversation about the national security implications of HIV/AIDS. Eddy remembers a State Department staff member saying: `You're talking about Ebola, you're talking about anthrax, a little bit in terms of smallpox and other diseases and the risk to national security. Have you considered HIV/AIDS? ' And I almost laughed! AIDS and national security, it's ridiculous and I immediately shut him up and moved on... (Eddy Interview) Eddy says his skepticism about the potential for HIV/AIDS to have an impact on national security was widespread at the time and "continues today" (Eddy Interview). Despite Eddy's skepticism, his PRD became a Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) released on 12 June 1996. The PDD mentions Ebola, drug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS as posing "one of the most significant health and security challenges facing the global community" (White House 1996). Despite describing a threat to the "global community, " the PDD focuses on the national security interests of the U. S.: Addressing this challenge requires a global strategy as most cities in the United States are within a 36 hour commercial flight of any area of the world -- less time '7 A PRD was the Clinton Administration's mechanism to direct reviews and studies by U. S. government agencies. A Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) was the Clinton Administration's mechanism to declare Presidential decisions on national security matters. 126 than the incubation period of many infectious diseases. Furthermore, the United States is vulnerable to a release of biological agents by rogue nations or terrorists, which could result in the spread of infectious diseases. (White House 1996: para. 1)
  8. ↑ Greg, Behrman (2004). Invisible People. New York: Free Press, Simon & Schuster, Inc. p. 372. ISBN 9781439157350. At the UN, Eddy tried to advance the notion that AIDS would overwhelm nation-states, begetting violence and disorder and possibly war. Only days before the planned session, Eddy found himself pitching the issue to an assemblage of African military attachés. The African generals took the presentation personally. They were offended that the United States would suggest that a disease was threatening to overwhelm their ability to rule their own countries. Walking out with a sinking feeling, Eddy thought the issue's prospects were bleak. When he checked back in with Holbrooke to relay the encounter, his boss assuaged his concerns, telling him that the meeting didn't really matter; the critical body was the Security Council. But Holbrooke and his team were having trouble convincing the members of the Council to give global AIDS a forum. "People were really scared to talk about this issue in a public setting, on the record, with implications," Bob Orr said. Russia, China, and France were all intransigent.” Search this book on
  9. ↑ "Specialized agencies - UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) - World AIDS Day and all AIDS-related matters" (PDF). un.org. United Nations. Retrieved July 15, 2022.
  10. ↑ "Nuclear exchange with North Korea would be 'massive crisis': R.P. Eddy". foxbusiness.com. Fox Business. January 5, 2018. Retrieved July 14, 2022. Former White House National Security Official and Ergo CEO R.P. Eddy discusses North Korea’s nuclear threat and the Trump administration withholding aid from Pakistan.
  11. ↑ "Trump won't be able to ignore John Bolton: R.P. Eddy". foxbusiness.com. Fox Business. March 28, 2018. Retrieved July 14, 2022. R.P. Eddy, the CEO of global intelligence firm Ergo, discusses how incoming National Security Adviser John Bolton will help President Trump.
  12. ↑ "Anderson Cooper 360 degrees - Alleged Double Murderer Caught in Indiana; Tornadoes Sweep Through Iowa; Examining Indigo Children". cnn.com. CNN. November 14, 2005. Retrieved July 14, 2022. COOPER: I want to talk further about the mind-boggling subject of people who are willing to die to make some point or another. We are joined here in New York by R.P. Eddy, the former National Security Council director of counterterrorism, and, in Chicago, by Robert Pape, author of "Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic Of Suicide Bombing."
  13. ↑ Yang, John (June 17, 2019). "Why cyber warfare represents diplomatic territory". pbs.org. PBS Newshour. Retrieved July 14, 2011. Judy, The Times reported that the president and Congress have given the Pentagon's Cyber Command, which is based at Fort Meade, Maryland, the authority to conduct offensive operations without direct presidential approval. That means commanders there can operate more freely, and, in theory, more nimbly. The intrusions into Russia's electrical grid are the latest reported example of U.S. military efforts on an increasingly crowded digital battlefield.For more on this, we are joined by R.P. Eddy. He's a former National Security Council official and the founder of Ergo, an intelligence consulting firm.
  14. ↑ Brangham, William (May 24, 2017). "Manchester attack reveals risk of 'soft targets'". pbs.org. PBS Newshour. Retrieved July 14, 2011. As British officials continue to piece together who was behind this attack, and to try to stop another from occurring, we wanted to take a closer look at just how the U.K. handles counterterrorism. For that, I'm joined by R.P. Eddy. He served on the staff of the National Security Council during the Clinton administration, where he worked closely with British officials. And he is the author, along with Richard Clarke, of "Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes."
  15. ↑ "Attempted Terrorist Attack". charlierose.com. Charlie Rose. August 8, 2006. Retrieved August 12, 2022. Steven Simon, senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and R. P. Eddy, senior fellow for counterterrorism at The Manhattan Institute, analyze the attempted terrorist attack uncovered in Great Britain.
  16. ↑ Martin, Rachel; Temple-Raston, Dina (January 13, 2021). "Why Didn't The FBI And DHS Produce A Threat Report Ahead of The Capitol Insurrection?". npr.org. NPR. Retrieved August 21, 2022. Temple-Raston- Our reporting found that one of the reasons that they didn't treat it the same way may have been bias. We talked to someone named R.P. Eddy, and he used to be in the National Security Council. He's done a lot of counterterrorism work. He worked with the NYPD and the LAPD, and now he has his own intelligence consultancy. And he thinks that something called the invisible obvious was at work. And basically, that's things that sit right in front of us that we don't notice. RP Eddy- It was very hard for these decision-makers and these analysts to realize that people who look just like them could want to commit this kind of unconstitutional violence and could literally try to and want to kill them.
  17. ↑ "Groton School: The Quarterly". The Groton School. Fall 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2022. R.P. Eddy 90'
  18. ↑ "USM Today". University School of Milwaukee. 2008. Retrieved July 14, 2022. They were assisted by USM alumnus R.P. Eddy ’90, bestselling author and former senior U.S. diplomat.
  19. ↑ Dumas, Timothy (June 2021). "Escaping Tommorow". Greenwich: Greenwich Magazine. pp. 64–75. Eddy's career path did not go as one would expect. At Brown University ) he earned a football letter and a neuroscience degree, proving the two are not mutually exclusive;
  20. ↑ Evans, J. Kenneth (August 16, 1995), "Man Combats Hunger", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, pp. N-10, R.P. Eddy of Sewickley is a champion in the fight against hunger. The recent graduate of Brown University was one of 17 participants in the Mickey Leland Hunger Fellows Program. named for a man renowned for his humanitarian leadership. The program, which trains future leaders of the anti-hunger movement, combines direct service with public policy to provide its participants with short and long-term solutions to ending hunger. Eddy worked with Operation Food Share in Dayton, Ohio, helping to develop OFS's national food salvage program, which included assembling a training manual and producing a three-hour video for a local cable television station. He has experience as a life-skills therapist at a rehabilitation hospital and an independent researcher for the Neuro Science Department at Brown.CS1 maint: Date and year (link)
  21. ↑ Scott, Montgomery (November 8, 1999). "Hall Scored Victory in Hunger Fight". Dayton Daily News. Dayton. p. 14. Through a friend, Eddy landed his spot in the NSC and ended up helping the White House develop a presidential directive that set the road map for dealing with humanitarian crises when U.S. troops are employed in peace-keeping efforts. Today, Eddy is a senior policy advisor and executive assistant to Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
  22. ↑ "Leading Health Experts Offer Roadmap for How Americans Can Safely Resume Normal Activities As Covid Becomes Endemic". rockefellerfoundation.org. The Rockefeller Foundation. March 7, 2022. Retrieved July 14, 2022. R.P. Eddy—CEO of Ergo— is a former Director at the White House National Security Council, senior U.S. and UN Diplomat and WHO / UNAIDS executive. An architect of the 1996 White House pandemic response plan NSTC-7 and the design of the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Co-author of an award-winning book on decision making to forecast catastrophes (including pandemics) Warnings (2017).
  23. ↑ Dumas, Timothy (June 2021). "Escaping Tommorow". Greenwich: Greenwich Magazine. pp. 64–75. Instead of enrolling in med school, he landed deep inside the Clinton White House as a bright young light on the National Security Council. On May 16, 1995, President Clinton took a Sharpie to a brief news article about an outbreak of Ebola virus in Zaire: "Are we ready for something like this?" The scrawled query made its way to Richard Clarke, who, seeking to delegate it to one of his crew, could not ignore the eagerly raised hand ofR.P. Eddy. Eddy tllen composed the first-ever White House pandemic response plan.
  24. ↑ Ward, Vicky (May 11, 2011). "Clarke's Challange". vanityfair.com. Vanity Fair. Retrieved July 14, 2022. R. P. Eddy recalls that one time in the mid-90s Clarke called him into his West Wing office and told him to shut the door. “You’ve upset Bev [Roundtree] somehow,” he told Eddy, who was in his early 20s and new to the job, “and that will not do.” Clarke reached into his pocket and gave Eddy, then earning just $6,800 a year, $40 to buy a bouquet for Roundtree. Eddy emphasizes that Clarke can be unspeakably generous. “I almost fell out of my chair when I heard [conservative columnist Robert] Novak hinting that Clarke could be misogynistic or racist,” he says. “It blew me away.… One of our [African-American] colleagues had a daughter.… Dick would see her on July Fourth holidays and so on, when she’d come to the White House. He became aware of the [financial] challenges facing this woman and her daughter, so he secretly set up a scholarship fund for this girl. So all of a sudden checks were showing up … and the mother was made aware that it was available for this girl to go to college. Her mother had no idea who paid for it.… I’m not sure to this day she knows.”
  25. ↑ Wright, Lawrence (January 6, 2002). "The Counter-Terrorist". The New Yorker. Retrieved July 14, 2022. In Washington, O’Neill became part of a close-knit group of counter-terrorism experts which formed around Richard Clarke. In the web of federal agencies concerned with terrorism, Clarke was the spider. Everything that touched the web eventually came to his attention. The members of this inner circle, which was known as the Counter-terrorism Security Group (C.S.G.), were drawn mainly from the C.I.A., the National Security Council, and the upper tiers of the Defense Department, the Justice Department, and the State Department. They met every week in the White House Situation Room. “John could lead a discussion at that level,” R. P. Eddy, who was an N.S.C. director at the time, told me. “He was not just the guy you turned to for a situation report. He was the guy who would say the thing that everybody in the room wishes he had said.” “Everybody knew John,” R. P. Eddy, who left Washington in 1999 for a job at the United Nations, told me.
  26. ↑ Dumas, Timothy (June 2021). "Escaping Tommorow". Greenwich: Greenwich Magazine. pp. 64–75. In l999 he left the NSC for diplomacy, serving first as chief of staff to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke, then as senior policy advisor to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.
  27. ↑ "Secretary-General Kofi Annan (1997-2006) Inter-Agency Relations - Specialized agencies - UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) - World AIDS Day and all AIDS-related matters" (PDF). un.org. United Nations. Retrieved July 15, 2022.
  28. ↑ "2001 Executive Office of the Secretary General - Officers' areas of responsibility". jstor.org. UN Secretary-General Papers: Kofi Annan (1997-2006). August 31, 2001. Retrieved July 15, 2022. Senior Officers: Mr. Kevin St. Louis Mr. R.P. Eddy a) Management of the office of the DSG, including special tasks (and assisting DSG in areas indicated below). b) Economic and Social issues and development cooperation (including coordination with multilateral and financial institutions; policy and operational review on relations with EU; review of Secretary-General's reports to ECOSOC and GA) and support to UN Conferences. c) Coordination among Secretariat, Funds and Programmes and other partners (including monitoring work of Executive Committees, Resident Coordinator system and Regional Commissions). d) Management policy and reform (human resources, accountability, staff security and ICT). e) HIV/AIDS- related initiatives. f) Iraq oil-for-food programme. g) Liaison and guidance to UNFIP. h) Youth Employment Network and other special projects.
  29. ↑ Dumas, Timothy (June 2021). "Escaping Tommorow". Greenwich: Greenwich Magazine. pp. 64–75. In Eddy's government days, his port- folio included the HIV epidemic in Africa. "HIV was eviscerating the continent. It was a horrible thing to work on, because it appeared unsolvable. And the barriers in the way of a solution seemed immovable. I literally had a staring contest with the king of Swaziland, who refused to deal with it! I had arguments with cardinals from the Vatican, who refused to promote condom use. I argued with pharmaceutical companies, which refused to consider reducing their prices for antiretrovirals. We were ignored by American legislators who refused to give money to a disease that killed people they didn't appreciate."
  30. ↑ Greg, Behrman (2004). Invisible People. New York: Free Press, Simon & Schuster, Inc. p. 372. ISBN 9781439157350. At the UN, Eddy tried to advance the notion that AIDS would overwhelm nation-states, begetting violence and disorder and possibly war. Only days before the planned session, Eddy found himself pitching the issue to an assemblage of African military attachés. The African generals took the presentation personally. They were offended that the United States would suggest that a disease was threatening to overwhelm their ability to rule their own countries. Walking out with a sinking feeling, Eddy thought the issue's prospects were bleak. When he checked back in with Holbrooke to relay the encounter, his boss assuaged his concerns, telling him that the meeting didn't really matter; the critical body was the Security Council. But Holbrooke and his team were having trouble convincing the members of the Council to give global AIDS a forum. "People were really scared to talk about this issue in a public setting, on the record, with implications," Bob Orr said. Russia, China, and France were all intransigent.” Search this book on
  31. ↑ "4259th meeting: The responsibility of the Security Council in the maintenance of international peace and security: HIV/AIDS and international peacekeeping operations" (PDF). United Nations Security Council. January 19, 2001. p. 24. Retrieved July 14, 2022. When I leave here at noon tomorrow, I leave the Mission in the hands of a very good team. I am particularly pleased that Secretary-designate Powell has asked Ambassador Cunningham to remain as the Deputy Permanent Representative and has already said that he wants to have a direct working relationship with Ambassador Cunningham until my successor is chosen. Everything you have said in praise of our efforts was not addressed simply to me, in my view, but to an entire team. R.P. Eddy, whom you all know, has worked tirelessly on this issue and deserves great credit. He has worked very closely with DPKO and UNAIDS and others in this room.
  32. ↑ Knight, Lindsey (May 1, 2008), UNAIDS : the first 10 years, 1996-2006 (PDF), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, p. 290, ISBN 9789291735891, retrieved July 14, 2022, The session had been engineered by Richard Holbrooke, United States Ambassador to the UN since August 1999, in close consultation with UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot, and in part as a result of visiting Africa the previous November in his capacity as a Security Council member. Holbrooke returned from this trip convinced that AIDS was a major global problem and should be deliberated at the Security Council. Even before that visit, Piot had discussed the idea of a Security Council session with Holbrooke (it had been part of the strategic road map planned at the Talloires, France, retreat in 1998), but he had not anticipated the speed with which Holbrooke could work. Although Holbrooke met with some resistance, he was determined that the matter should be on the Security Council’s agenda because, as he explained to his aide, R P Eddy, ‘RP, one of the only UN entities that ever gets anything done is the Security Council. That’s where decisions are made, that’s where attention is focused’3 . So he, his staff and UNAIDS Secretariat staff worked very hard between Christmas and New Year – writing background documents for the meeting, Piot recalls, ”...but we took everybody by surprise”. Holbrooke did all the political work, including involving Gore, and UNAIDS provided the background, arguments and evidence.CS1 maint: Date and year (link)
  33. ↑ Kapstein, Ethan; Busby, Joshua (August 29, 2013). AIDS Drugs For All: Social Movements and Market Transformations. Cambridge University Press. p. 315. ISBN 9781107292581. The government and intergovernmental officials who supported changes in IP rules that facilitated access as well as the drug quality and procurement policies that opened the door to generic competition also can be considered part of the broader advocacy network. Certainly, Koff Annan was the most prominent intergovernmental proponent of access, "the world's chief AIDS advocate" in Piot's description (Piot 2012, Kindle Location 4265). In April 2001, Annan made the keynote address at a summit in Abuja, Nigeria, where he called for the creation of a $7—$10 billion fund to fight HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases (Annan 2001). In June 2001, the UN General Assembly had a special session on HIV/AIDS, which set as one of its top priorities "treatment to all those infected" (UN 2001). To build support for this initiative inside the UN, Annan relied on a network of allies in it, including his deputy, Louise Frechette, his senior adviser on HIV/AIDS, R.P. Eddy, as well as Piot at UNAIDS, Mark Malloch Brown at UNDP, and Gro Harlem Brundtland, and her successor, Jong Took Lee, at the WHO. Once the Global Fund was created in 2002, its first executive director, Richard Feachem, was responsible for helping create an important funding platform that facilitated generic access. Less prominent officials include Lernbit Rago and Andre Van Zyl at the WHO, who led the efforts to create the prequalification for medicines program, discussed in Chapter 6. Search this book on
  34. ↑ Baker, Al (July 3, 2007). "For $1.5 Billion, New York Plans a Much-Delayed Overhaul of 911". The New York Times. Retrieved July 14, 2022. “If they get a bad contractor, then they will get fleeced,” said R.P. Eddy, a senior fellow for counterterrorism at the Manhattan Institute who has been a leader in a national initiative to enhance 911 phone systems.
  35. ↑ Schmitt, Eric (August 2, 2018). "Michael Sheehan, Prescient Counterterrorism Expert, Dies at 63". The New York Times. Retrieved July 14, 2022. After the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Sheehan spent two years as an assistant secretary general of the United Nations, overseeing 16 missions and 40,000 military and police personnel in peacekeeping operations around the globe. In 2003, Raymond W. Kelly, commissioner of the New York Police Department, tapped Mr. Sheehan to run the force’s new counterterrorism bureau. In three years, he created one of the world’s elite terror-fighting units, overseeing some 220 officers and investigators. “The foundation of N.Y.P.D.’s counterterrorism program was built by Mike Sheehan,” Michael O’Neil, one of his top police deputies at the time, said in a telephone interview.
  36. ↑ Miller, Judith (September 10, 2011). "Protecting New York". city-journal.org. City Journal. Retrieved July 14, 2022. “Others note Sheehan’s enormous kindness and mentoring in helping younger national security analysts. One beneficiary was R.P. Eddy, who served as a director at the NSC and now heads global intelligence firm Ergo. Eddy is grateful for what he calls Sheehan’s invaluable advice and support when he joined the NSC after graduate school. “He taught me how to handle bureaucratic B.S.,” said Eddy, who worked with Sheehan in five different posts. “He was fiercely patriotic but also ruthlessly honest, especially about our own shortcomings.”
  37. ↑ "Securing Our Cities Counterterrorism After 9/11". manhattan-institute.org. Manhattan Institute. Retrieved July 14, 2022. Like all New Yorkers, the trustees and staff of the Manhattan Institute were eager to play a part in solving this new and urgent national security challenge. In January 2002, Sheehan, who by now was running the NYPD’s Counterterrorism Bureau, paid a visit to the Manhattan Institute, at the invitation of Institute senior fellow R. P. Eddy, a veteran national security expert with experience in senior positions at the U.N. and on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. Sheehan broached the idea of a new collaboration between the Institute and the NYPD, noting that the department needed to retrain its officers immediately but that the resources to do so simply didn’t exist—there was literally no line item in the NYPD budget for a new think tank or policy center devoted to best practices, intelligence analysis, and counterterrorism.
  38. ↑ "Securing Our Cities Counterterrorism After 9/11". manhattan-institute.org. Manhattan Institute. Retrieved July 14, 2022. “It became very obvious very quickly that the Manhattan Institute could become a great home and support network for something dynamic and useful for the NYPD,” according to Eddy. “And the Institute stood up fast. The trustees put up real dollars to custom-build what we decided to call the Center for Tactical Counterterrorism (CTCT).” With Eddy at the helm as executive director, the CTCT’s first order of business was organizing a closed-door, invitation-only conference.
  39. ↑ Bowman, Amanda (Fall 2006). "Policing in an Age of Terror: Prevention is Better Than Cure". americanambassadors.org. Council of American Ambasssadors. Retrieved July 14, 2022. The US delegation included William Bratton, Chief of the Los Angeles Police; and John Timoney, Chief of the Miami Police, as well as the Center for Security Policy’s President Frank Gaffney, Jr. and Vice President for Research, Alex Alexiev, and this author, together with The Manhattan Institute’s President, Lawrence Mone, Senior Fellow George Kelling, and Tim Connors and R.P. Eddy from the Institute’s Center for Policing Terrorism.
  40. ↑ Hurst, Lynda (July 9, 2005), Facing enemies in the shadows, Toronro: The Toronto Star, pp. F01, R.P. Eddy, director of counter-terrorism at the Manhattan Institute, says that in the meantime, Western governments had better start thinking outside the box. Local police forces are now used as "first responders," he says; they could and should be "first preventers."Eddy argues that common sense, as well as experience, shows that local cops walking the beat are uniquely sited to notice and investigate suspicious behaviour. Based on the numbers alone, police are much more likely than intelligence agents to cross paths with a terrorist."If terrorists feel that all police eyeballs are trained on them, they might look for less daunting places to operate," he wrote in The Times of London yesterday. "Just as a seasoned drug-enforcement officer can spot signs of drug dealing, special programs could train police how to identify signs of terrorism, religious radicalism, clues of bomb making and other suspicious activities."
  41. ↑ McGreevy, Patrick (September 9, 2006). "Overseas Links Urged for LAPD". latimes.com. The LA Times. Retrieved August 8, 2022. Eddy, who was co-chairman of a subcommittee for the mayor’s council, said that when a bomb goes off in Israel, a New York police detective goes to the scene, collects firsthand information and data from the Israeli police, and writes a memo to his boss in New York that is used to determine whether action is needed there.
  42. ↑ Yarris, Lynn (July 16, 1999). "Richardson changes mind on ANS". lbl.gov. Berkeley Lab Currents. Retrieved July 14, 2022. Leading the negotiations for DOE will be J. Gary Falle, Richardson's chief of staff; R.P. Eddy, a special assistant; Joan Rohlfing, senior policy adviser for nonproliferation and national security; and John Angell, assistant secretary for congressional intergovernmental affairs.
  43. ↑ "Membership Roster". cfr.org. Council on Foriegn Relations. Retrieved July 14, 2022. Roster of Members - R.P. Eddy
  44. ↑ Brandom, Russell; Hawkins, Andrew (July 10, 2016). "How Uber secretly investigated its legal foes — and got caught". theverge.com. The Verge. Retrieved July 14, 2022. Founded in 2006, Ergo provides data analysis and business consulting for a range of private clients, according to its website, but its main goal is the delivery of "ground truth and actionable intelligence obtainable only from frontline sources." It boasts of working on 800 projects in 120 countries, from searching for fraud in Iraqi shipping deals to advising on Ugandan oil contracts. It is headquartered in New York City, but has offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Yangon, Myanmar. The company's founder, Randolph Post "R.P." Eddy, has a long history of work in both counterterrorism and diplomacy.
  45. ↑ "Governors Look At Preparing For And Responding To A Cyber Crisis". nga.org. National Governers Associations. February 7, 2022. Retrieved July 14, 2022. As an ongoing effort to look at how states and territories can work to improve their cybersecurity posture, the National Governors Association Pandemic and Disaster Response (PDR) Task Force held a session specifically on preparing for and responding to a cyber crisis during the NGA Winter Meeting. Task Force Co-Chairs Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee were joined by the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Jen Easterly, Chief Executive Officer of Ergo R.P Eddy, Merritt Baer, principal at Amazon Web Services, Office of the Chief Information Security Officer and Kemba Eneas Walden, assistant general counsel, Digital Crimes Unit at Microsoft. Building off CISA, the private sector partners—Ergo, Microsoft and Amazon—emphasized the importance of increasing resiliency and building security into the architecture of digital systems. Understanding who maintains and owns the network, as well as awareness of gaps that may exist, are critical in building security and redundancy.
  46. ↑ Mcfall, Catlin (January 31, 2022). "Russia will hit US with cyberattack if sanctioned, cyber expert warns: 'We are already in warfare state'". foxnews.com. FOX News. Retrieved July 14, 2022. "If Russia does indeed go into the Donbas region and wave a flag…the United States has already promised a series of responses," R.P. Eddy, CEO of cybersecurity firm Ergo, told a bipartisan group of governors. "What is Russia’s next move? "[Its] very likely is to increase cyberattacks. It’s an easy move for them," he added. "That means U.S. states and U.S. private companies need to be taking this very seriously. "We are already in a warfare state right now, and we need to be aware of that," Eddy warned.
  47. ↑ Gold, Russel (April 16, 2010). "Schlumberger Gambles on Iraq Work". wsj.com. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved July 14, 2022. R. P. Eddy, chief executive of Ergo, an emerging market consultant with an office in Baghdad, predicts Iraq's oilfield workforce will hit 46,000 in 2015 from 6,000 today. Many will be expatriates, he says, since there aren't enough Iraqis to fill the jobs.
  48. ↑ Brandom, Russel; Hawkins, Andrew (July 10, 2016). "How Uber secretly investigated its legal foes — and got caught". theverge.com. The Verge. Retrieved July 18, 2022. By the end of the week, Henley was on the phone with a corporate research firm called Ergo, also known as Global Precision Research LLC, asking for help with "a sensitive, very under-the-radar investigation." After a few emails, Henley worked out the terms of the deal with an Ergo executive named Todd Egeland. It would be a "level two" investigation, the middle of the three levels of work offered by Ergo. It would be drawn from seven source interviews conducted over the course of 10 days, for which Uber would pay $19,500. As with any Ergo investigation, the confidentiality of the client was paramount, and sources were never meant to know who was paying for the research. "We do quite a bit of this work for law firms," Egeland reassured him. (Ergo did not respond to requests for comment.)
  49. ↑ Hiltzik, Michael (June 10, 2016). "Column: How sleazy is Uber? This federal judge wants to know". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 22, 2022. As it turns out, it was them. Uber confessed in February that it had hired the security firm Ergo to investigate Mayer and his lawyers. In fact, Meyer’s lawyers say Ergo’s investigative report was circulating in Uber’s offices and may have been in the hands of the company’s general counsel, Salle Yoo, on January 20, the very day the company’s lawyers were saying “it is not us.”
  50. ↑ "Open letter to America signed by 489 national-security leaders calls Trump not equal to the enormous responsibilities of his office". marketwatch.com. Market Watch. September 24, 2020. Retrieved August 12, 2022. R.P. Eddy, former Director, National Security Council
  51. ↑ Howard, Jacqueline (March 7, 2022). "Former Biden advisers, public health experts release Covid-19 'roadmap' with goal for transitioning out of pandemic phase". cnn.com. CNN. Retrieved August 12, 2022. The authors of the new report include six former members of President Biden's coronavirus advisory board: Dr. Luciana Borio, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, Rick Bright, Michael Osterholm, Jill Jim and David Michaels. Dr. Paul Offit, an adviser to the US Food and Drug Administration; Kizzmekia S. Corbett, scientific lead for coronavirus vaccines at the National Institutes of Health; and R.P. Eddy, former director at the White House National Security Council, also are among the authors of the report.
  52. ↑ Choi, Joseph (March 7, 2021). "Former Biden COVID-19 advisers, experts call for more action from White House". thehill.com. The Hill. Retrieved August 8, 2022. Authors on the report included Luciana Borio, an infectious disease physician who served on the Biden-Harris transition COVID-19 advisory board; Jill Jim, the executive director for the Navajo Department of Health; and R.P. Eddy, a former White House official and senior diplomat for the U.S. and the U.N.
  53. ↑ "Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes". harpercollins.com. Harper Collins. May 23, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2022. Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes By Richard A. Clarke, R.P. Eddy
  54. ↑ Sinai, Joshua (June 5, 2017). "BOOK REVIEW: 'Warnings: Finding Cassandras to stop Catastrophes'". washingtontimes.com. The Washington Times. Retrieved July 14, 2022. This book is about the capability to forecast future trends, particularly impending disasters, in spite of conventional wisdom’s usual dismissal of such warnings, which is part of what is termed the Cassandra complex. Cassandra, the authors explain, was a Greek princess who was endowed with “the ability to see impending doom, but the inability to persuade anyone to believe in her.” The authors are well qualified to write about decisions at the highest level. Richard Clarke is a veteran national security expert in the U.S. government and White House, with his co-author, R.P. Eddy, the CEO of Ergo, a business intelligence firm, based in New York.
  55. ↑ "Kirkus Reviews Warnings Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes". kirkusreviews.com. Kirkus reviews. Retrieved July 14, 2022. Why we should heed the warnings of qualified experts and how the failure to do so in the past has led to avoidable disasters.Bestselling nonfiction author and novelist Clarke (Pinnacle Event, 2015, etc.) worked as a counterterrorism adviser for Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, but his warnings about the threat of an attack by al-Qaida were repeatedly ignored. Eddy, a former director of the National Security Council, is the CEO of Ergo, a global intelligence firm. As the authors demonstrate in a narrative that occasionally bogs down in figures and numerous bulleted sections, just as the Trojans failed to heed the warnings of a Greek attack by the mythical Princess Cassandra, the warnings of modern policy advisers are often ignored. Some of the major examples of the past century include the attack on Pearl Harbor, the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. In current-day usage, the label is often attached to stock analysts who specialize in predicting the direction of the markets. The authors cite Meredith Whitney, “a young analyst at a mid-tier research house,” as a perfect example of a modern Cassandra in action. “Despite the bursting of the dot-com bubble between 1999 and 2001,” they write, “the stock market appeared to be as strong as ever.” But Whitney, shocked to discover that Citigroup, one of the world’s largest banks, was paying out more to investors than it was earning in profits, downgraded its rating, “the equivalent of a call to sell the stock.” In August 2008, Fortune described Whitney as “the woman who called Wall Street’s meltdown.” Further warnings by experts on a variety of issues—e.g., the growth of artificial intelligence or meteor strikes—are also being ignored. Clarke and Eddy suggest the need for a watchdog group to monitor threats and recommend appropriate responses.
  56. ↑ "Reddit AMA - We are Richard Clarke and R.P. Eddy, two national security and counterterrorism experts, here to answer your questions about terrorism and other threats to mankind". Reddit. reddit.com. May 31, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2022. So, as we do publicity for this book, we are also announcing a new global effort to find other credible, but unheard warnings. We are joined by Gen. Michael Hayden, Laurie Garrett and Meredith Whitney (two of our Cassandras), Mark Gerson, and others in the formation of the Annual Cassandra Award. We have create a non-profit (501-C3) foundation, and are SOLICTING NOMINATIONS for potential "Cassandras" - credible people who are warning of catastrophe, but being ignored. DO you have ideas for future threats that are not getting the attention they need? Please go to: www.findcassandra.com and nominate them. We will announce a winner each year.



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