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Dickson is a Ghanaian lawyer, author and adjunct lecturer in national security intelligence, military and business law. He is currently Chief Legal Advisor at the National Security Council Secretariat. He has 22 years experience in internal security, national security intelligence, private legal practise and academia. He specializes in national security intelligence and military law, and has authored 3 books and over 31 articles. He has been invited as speaker to key events in the United States, China, South America and on the continent of Africa as expert panelist at regional and international security events. His academic, research and teaching interest span Intelligence Covert Operations, Weapons Systems, Fraud Investigations, National Security Analysis, Cyber security, Maritime Security, Border Security, International Financial Criminal Law as well as Counter Terrorism on which he has taught and written extensively. He served previous as Legal Advisor to 2 National Security Coordinators, and subsequently as Legal &amp; Regulatory Director at Expresso Telecom Group, Alternate Director at the Ghana Chamber of Telecoms, Company Secretary at Dolphin Telecom (ETGIS), Head of Legal at NAMA, co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Law Firm of Lex Mundus &amp; Cencla, and as Chief Legal Officer for the South-Dakota based US multinational corporation Sanford Health(GH). His contributions to academia over the last 13 years include serving as External Examiner for Coventry University (UK), Faculty member at the Faculty of Law, Wisconsin University, Faculty member, School of Research and Graduate Studies, Wisconsin and Ghana Telecom University, Facilitator for the Laws of War DDP Course at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Center, Director at National Security Institute, and Adjunct Lecturer at both Radford and Knutford University Colleges. He has served as thesis supervisor, teacher and academic mentor to students at both under and post-graduate level since 2005. He has attended and contributed to a diverse range of intelligence courses and Government of Ghana working assignments with partner domestic military, security and foreign intelligence services that specilize on Africa among them - the Russian FSB,&; the Chinese Ministry of State Security, the Israeli Mossad, the US FBI, the British Secret Service, the US Department of Homeland Security and most recently the US Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS). He is the National Focal Point for the International Criminal Court, Member of the International Society for Military Law, Distinguished Fellow of the Center for Strategic and Defense Studies, Director at Ghana&quot;s Financial Intelligence Center (FIC), Co-ordinator of the United States - Ghana Government Security Governance Initiative (SGI) Secretariat which houses the National Security Institute (NSI),  and Reviewer of a number of national policy instruments including those covering Chemical Biological Radioactive and Nuclear Weapons programs. Dickson was educated at the University of Ghana, the Ghana School of Law and Harvard University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and Philosophy, a Bachelor of Laws Degree, a Master of Laws Degree, a Barrister at Law Certificate, an Executive Certificate in National and International Security, a Post Graduate Certificate in Forensics, and various Certificates in Advance Intelligence. He is currently undertaking his doctoral studies with the Open University of Malaysia (OUM).