Rob Mendoza – VISS25
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Vancouver International Security Summit; Former National Security Practitioner and Policy Advisor, Government of Canada
Rob Mendoza is one of the Co-Founders and Managing Partners of the Vancouver International Security Summit.
Mr. Mendoza has held various roles across 9 Government of Canada departments and agencies over the past 18 years, occupying positions such as Senior Advisor of a Special Advisory Group to the Chief of Defence Staff and to the Deputy Minister of National Defence; Chief of Staff to the Deputy Commissioner of the Canadian Coast Guard; Intelligence Policy Advisor at Public Safety Canada; he managed the North American Relations team at the Canada Border Services Agency; was the HR Lead for the Intelligence Analyst Community of Practice at the Privy Council office; he has also worked for the Assistant Deputy Attorney General of Canada on matters pertaining to national security and he is a former Federal Investigator.
In 2018, Mr. Mendoza was appointed as Co-Chair of the Canadian Association of Professional Intelligence Analysts, supporting intelligence analysis standards and professional development within the Security & Intelligence Community. Mr. Mendoza now an Emeritus Co-Chair provides advisory services for the intelligence community, professional development sessions, mentoring services and organizing workshops based out of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
Mr. Mendoza was the lead negotiator on behalf of the Department of National Defence with the National Security Committee of Parliamentarians as well as the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency when they were first established. In 2019, Mr. Mendoza led the establishment of the Defence Intelligence Oversight Board a tasking from the Chief of Defence Staff, to create the highest authoritative body, to approve the most sensitive and highly classified Defence Intelligence Activities undertaken by the Canadian Armed Forces.
Mr. Mendoza continues to lead efforts to bring together practitioners from Canada’s intelligence community with academia, to foster and improve dialogue on critical national security issues. He is currently authoring a textbook entitled Foundations of Canadian National Security – Operational, Legal and Policy Perspectives and he provides training to current intelligence practitioners at the Canadian Academy of Intelligence Analysis, based out of the Privy Council Office.
Rob Mendoza is one of the Co-Founders and Managing Partners of the Vancouver International Security Summit.
Mr. Mendoza has held various roles across 9 Government of Canada departments and agencies over the past 18 years, occupying positions such as Senior Advisor of a Special Advisory Group to the Chief of Defence Staff and to the Deputy Minister of National Defence; Chief of Staff to the Deputy Commissioner of the Canadian Coast Guard; Intelligence Policy Advisor at Public Safety Canada; he managed the North American Relations team at the Canada Border Services Agency; was the HR Lead for the Intelligence Analyst Community of Practice at the Privy Council office; he has also worked for the Assistant Deputy Attorney General of Canada on matters pertaining to national security and he is a former Federal Investigator.
In 2018, Mr. Mendoza was appointed as Co-Chair of the Canadian Association of Professional Intelligence Analysts, supporting intelligence analysis standards and professional development within the Security & Intelligence Community. Mr. Mendoza now an Emeritus Co-Chair provides advisory services for the intelligence community, professional development sessions, mentoring services and organizing workshops based out of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
Mr. Mendoza was the lead negotiator on behalf of the Department of National Defence with the National Security Committee of Parliamentarians as well as the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency when they were first established. In 2019, Mr. Mendoza led the establishment of the Defence Intelligence Oversight Board a tasking from the Chief of Defence Staff, to create the highest authoritative body, to approve the most sensitive and highly classified Defence Intelligence Activities undertaken by the Canadian Armed Forces.
Mr. Mendoza continues to lead efforts to bring together practitioners from Canada’s intelligence community with academia, to foster and improve dialogue on critical national security issues. He is currently authoring a textbook entitled Foundations of Canadian National Security – Operational, Legal and Policy Perspectives and he provides training to current intelligence practitioners at the Canadian Academy of Intelligence Analysis, based out of the Privy Council Office.
