Dr. Elie D. Krakowski, President and CEO, leads the EDK Consulting, LLC.   Dr. Krakowski has extensive experience in international relations, international law, and national security affairs, and is a recognized authority on international terrorism, unconventional warfare, and propaganda/ subversion.    Dr. Krakowski’s career includes government service as Special Assistant to the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense, a professorship in International Relations and Law, and consulting.  He has a proven track record in trend and risk forecasting, as well as in strategy development and implementation. He has lectured widely throughout the US and abroad on international terrorism and other national security issues, and written extensively on regional conflicts, terrorism, and the other aspects of low intensity conflict. Dr. Krakowski has also traveled to many of the areas at the source of today’s terrorist activity and is familiar with their cultures and political and military leaderships.