Resident Faculty

 Celina B. Realuyo                                                                            

Assistant Professor of Counterterrorism

Email: RealuyoC@ndu.edu

B.S. in Foreign Service, Georgetown University

M.A. in International Relations, Johns Hopkins University

School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

M.B.A., Harvard Business School

Celina Realuyo joined the faculty at NDU/CISA in March 2007 after serving as the Director of Counterterrorism Finance Programs in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism in Washington, D.C. from 2002-2006.  After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Ms. Realuyo returned to government service to apply her international banking expertise to the financial front of the global war on terror.  She managed a multimillion-dollar foreign assistance program aimed at safeguarding financial systems against terrorist financing and money laundering.  Under her stewardship, the U.S. delivered training and technical assistance to over 20 countries across four continents, training over 1800 foreign counterparts.  Her team received an “A-” from the 9/11 Commission for their efforts to combat terrorist financing in December 2005. 

Prior to her return to Washington in 2002, Ms. Realuyo was a private banker with Goldman Sachs International in London providing strategic wealth advisory services to the most prominent families in Europe.  Previously, she had a distinguished career as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer.  Her diplomatic assignments included overseas tours as a Political Officer at the U.S. Embassies in Madrid and Panama, and as the Executive Officer at the U.S. Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.  In Washington, Ms. Realuyo served at the highest levels of government, in the State Department Operations Center, National Security Council’s White House Situation Room, and as Special Assistant to the Secretary of State.  She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Women in International Security, and the Middle East Institute.  Ms. Realuyo speaks French and Spanish fluently and is conversant in Italian, German, Filipino, and Arabic.