LinCT – AA

Welcome to the Leadership in Counter Terrorism Alumni Association (LinCT-AA) website.

LinCT-AA is a non-profit separate affiliate of the International Leadership in Counter Terrorism (LinCT) Program with a principle purpose to promote personal and professional development, networking, exchange of good practice and global thinking of Counter Terrorism Professionals from both law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The Association works with key academic research centres and leading professionals in relevant fields of expertise to continually develop and inform successful and sustainable partnerships. These relationships work effectively for the benefit and protection of communities across the world.

Each year, the Association hosts reconventions of its members and affiliates and is partnered and supported by some of the world’s largest private sector organisations. We have experienced fantastic conference events for many years across the world through regional events and as an Alumni we come together at our two annual LinCT-AA Counter Terrorism practitioners’ conferences. These have been enormously successful in the past in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Sydney, London, Las Vegas and Dublin/Belfast, and they continue to generate much thought and joint thinking across the counter terrorism community.

Just a reminder, this website provides important information about the LinCT-AA business, valuable links to key counter terrorism articles and partner associations along with details of membership, the opportunity to network with colleagues and details on related upcoming events. Our role in responding to the terrorism risk worldwide has not diminished and I seek your active support via the Alumni in doing so.

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Rebecca Ulam Weiner
LinCT-AA President & Chair of the Board 2025

Prior to assuming command of the Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau, Deputy Commissioner Weiner oversaw the NYPD’s counterterrorism operations and analysis section, developing an internationally-recognized intelligence and threat analysis program. She also served as the first representative of local law enforcement on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s National Intelligence Council, where she focused on transnational crime and terrorism. Deputy Commissioner Weiner previously served as Assistant Commissioner for Intelligence Analysis, Legal Counsel to the Intelligence Bureau’s Intelligence Analysis Unit, and Team Leader for the Middle East & North Africa, overseeing intelligence collection and analysis related to threats associated with those regions.

Prior to joining the NYPD in 2006, Deputy Commissioner Weiner was an International Security Fellow at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; a biotechnology consultant at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and a Science & Technology Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Deputy Commissioner Weiner graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts in History & Literature, and cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2005 with a Juris Doctorate. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia’s School for International and Public Affairs, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, President of the Leadership in Counterterrorism Alumni Association, and she was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York in 2006.

Rebecca Ulam Weiner
Deputy Commissioner – Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau
New York City Police Department