| Office: | Director of National Intelligence |
| Status: | Acting |
| President: | Donald Trump |
| Term Start: | January 20, 2017 |
| Term End: | March 15, 2017 |
| Predecessor: | James Clapper |
| Office1: | Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Intelligence Integration |
| President1: | Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Term Start1: | August 1, 2014 |
| Term End1: | March 15, 2017 |
| Allegiance: |  United States |
| Serviceyears: | 1986-1990 |
| Unit: | 101st Airborne Division |
Michael P. Dempsey is a former acting Director of National Intelligence, serving from January 20, 2017 to March 15, 2017.[1] [2]
Previously, Dempsey served as the deputy director of national intelligence and President Obama's primary intelligence briefer from 2014 to 2017. In this role, he led the integration of the US intelligence community's 16 agencies. Dempsey also regularly participated in National Security Council, Principal, and Deputy Committee meetings and presented congressional testimony.
Dempsey is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Formerly CFR's National Intelligence Fellow, Dempsey published 45 articles in more than a dozen publications, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg, CNN, WIRED, Harvard Business Review, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.
Dempsey is currently vice president of government affairs for space, cyber, and intelligence at Northrop Grumman. He is also a non-resident research scholar at Columbia University.