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Biography
Richard Horowitz is an attorney concentrating in corporate, international, and security matters. He has provided legal
assistance to companies from various industries including pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, financial services,
computer and software, and aviation and is admitted to practice law in New York and the District of Columbia. Mr.
Horowitz holds a private investigator's license and served in the Israel Defense Forces with the rank of captain where
he researched, planned, and implemented national security projects.
Mr. Horowitz is a frequent speaker on the methods and mentality of terrorism and the West's difficulty in grasping the
threat, trade secret law and the legal aspects of acquiring competitive intelligence, and money laundering schemes and
investigations, and has spoken at conferences in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, The Czech Republic, England, France, Israel,
Latvia, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland and Uruguay. He was the terrorism consultant on Fox New York during the week of
September 11, has testified to the Public Safety Committee of the New York City Council on post-September 11 security
in New York, and has also appeared on NBC, MSNBC, and the Fox News Channel.
Mr. Horowitz is the founder and editor of
InternationalSecurityResources.com and authored the
entry
on the Patriot Act in the
Encyclopedia of Terrorism(SAGE Publications). He is also the author of the
Society of Competitive Intelligence Professional's (SCIP) Policy Analysis on Competitive Intelligence and the Economic
Espionage Act, has advised SCIP on the revision of its Code of Ethics, and is consulting editor to the money laundering
section of Offshoretoday.com. He has been published in
Money Laundering Alert,
Competitive Intelligence Review,
the
Journal of Counterterrorism and Security International, and the
International Journal of Intelligence
and Counterintelligence.
Mr. Horowitz served as security consultant for a public relations event held for Bosnia under the auspices of the president
of the United Nations General Assembly in 1993 and prepared educational material for the U.S. Department of Defense. He
has served as a member of the International Security Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar Association, the Trade
Secrets and Interference with Contracts Committee of the American Bar Association, and the Economic Crime Council of the
American Society for Industrial Security. Mr. Horowitz holds a B.A. in political science from Yeshiva University, an M.A.
from the Department of Politics of New York University studying international relations, a Mortimer Zuckerman Fellowship
at Columbia University's Graduate School of International and Public Affairs, and a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law.
