COL Chris Countouriotis is an Army Special Forces officer from San Francisco, California.  Chris commissioned as a Medical Service Corps Officer in 2004 and transferred to the Infantry in 2006. Chris has spent the last 16 years assigned to units within the U.S. Special Operations Command.  He has broad experience working with joint, interagency, and international partners and has deployed multiple times throughout Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East.  Chris earned a Master’s degree from Columbia University in Organizational Psychology and received his undergraduate degree from the University of San Francisco.  Chris and his wife, Michelle, who served for 21 years in the Army herself, are raising 5 daughters. Chris’s research interests include national security policy, irregular warfare, and leader development and education.