Dr. Duncan McGill is Executive Vice President for Ace-Queen HQ in Las Vegas Nevada, a position that he holds remotely. Ace-Queen is a community-driven resurgence that creates economic development, and world-class solutions sets for homelessness, education, and safety in Smart Cities of the Future. McGill’s purpose is creating Smarter Future, an organization leveraging public/private partnerships supporting myriad opportunities for making our world better by linking corporate development with social improvement. Focused on education, science and technology, and IP protection to research and the student experience, Smarter Future seeks to tackle many of the problems in our communities while building a better workforce required within industry.
McGill has forty years of service in defense, intelligence, and academic communities. Currently, McGill serves on the Board of Army Research and Development at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine; Chair of the Army Logistics Roundtable; and as Chair of the Governance Committee of the International Association for Intelligence Education board. Previously, he served as Dean of the Ridge College of Intelligence Studies and Applied Sciences at Mercyhurst University where he led the development of their cyber education and intelligence programs and accelerated their Center for Intelligence Research, Analysis, and Training.
He spent ten years in the National Intelligence University as an associate dean, research director, and faculty member, and cofounded the Anthony G. Oettinger School of Science and Technology Intelligence. As the associate dean of the College of Strategic Intelligence, he led the Master of Science program in Strategic Intelligence and the Bachelor of Science program in Intelligence, along with seven graduate certificate programs. He managed the academic, personnel, financial and administrative affairs of the college while communicating its vision and goals to the intelligence community, U.S. Department of Defense, and the academic community. His research focuses on opportunity and risk at the intersection of people and technology and other science and technology issues affecting U.S. national security and strategy, among them cyber, weapons of mass destruction, emerging and disruptive technologies, conflict in the gray zone, supply chain disruption, wargaming, emergency response, and IED capabilities.
McGill is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, serving as a multi -functional logistician and Nuclear and Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Officer. Besides leading men and women in combat, he held joint duty assignments outside the Army at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), The Joint Staff, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. He led the design, development, training, and implementation of DTRA’s Consequence Management Advisory Teams (CMAT) including post-9/11 security challenges in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. Over the years, his deployments and travel have taken him to more than two dozen countries.
McGill earned his doctorate in biological defense from George Mason University, his MS in national resource strategy from the National Defense University, a MA in procurement management from Webster University, and a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri.
