Lonnie Henley is a member of the Senior National Intelligence Service in the Office of
the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). He has been a China specialist for over 30
years, beginning with 22 years in the US Army China as foreign area officer and military
intelligence officer. His military career included multiple assignments in Korea, at
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), on Army Staff, and in the History Department at
West Point. After retiring from the Army he joined the senior civil service as Defense
Intelligence Officer for East Asia and then Senior Intelligence Expert for Strategic
Warning at DIA. Leaving DIA in 2004, he worked two years as a senior analyst with
CENTRA Technology, Inc., before returning to government with ODNI in 2006. In
addition to his government position, he is an adjunct professor in the Security Studies
Program at Georgetown University. He was educated at West Point; at Oxford
University as a Rhodes Scholar; at Columbia University; and at the Joint Military
Intelligence College. He speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese and reads French. His wife
Sara Hanks is a partner in international capital markets with the London and New Yorkbased
law firm Clifford Chance LLP. They live in Alexandria, Virginia.