Robert Allen Fein PhD

Dr. Robert Allen Fein, Ph.D., is a forensic psychologist with a specialty in threat assessment and the prevention of targeted violence. He is currently a consultant to the Directorate for Behavioral Sciences of the Department of Defense Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), the DOD Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF), and the U.S. Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center. He also serves as a member of the Intelligence Science Board.

Dr. Fein has spent the last twenty-eight years working to understand and prevent targeted violence. He has conducted forensic mental health evaluations of several thousand violent offenders, has testified in state and federal courts on over 1,000 occasions on questions of "dangerousness," and has consulted on many hundreds of cases of potential workplace violence. For more than twenty years, Dr. Fein has worked with the U.S. Secret Service.

Dr. Fein received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1974 in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice. He received the American Academy of Forensic Psychology's Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Forensic Psychology in 2003 and the Association for Threat Assessment Professionals’ Distinguished Achievement Award in 2014. He holds an appointment at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School.