John Waddell

John Waddell serves as the Director of Professional Training at The Soufan Group.

He is a retired United States Marine having spent a large portion of his twenty-year United States Marine Corps (USMC) career posted abroad with repeat permanent assignments at U.S. embassies and other duties in the Arabian Gulf region. The balance of his military career was within various combat arms duty, as an operative and formal instructor. Upon retirement from the military in 2006, Mr. Waddell has resided full-time in Qatar and worked in projects involving critical infrastructure security evaluations, national-level risk management and security related training. Mr. Waddell is an ASIS CPP.