Special Agent Michael Mayo joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in 2024 after serving as Division Chief for Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Pacific Operations. In this assignment, he advised the Executive Assistant Director for Pacific Operations regarding human capital management, training, strategic planning and assessment, operational analysis, oversight of internal controls, risk management, and policy in support of investigations and operations of NCIS field offices and numerous subordinate elements located throughout the Western United States, Hawaii, Guam, Asia, Oceania, and Australia (2022-2024).
Special Agent Mayo began his career in 2008 at the NCIS Southwest Field Office in San Diego, CA, conducting counterintelligence and felony criminal investigations on behalf of the Department of the Navy (DON) and U.S. Marine Corps. Throughout his career, Special Agent Mayo was responsible for investigating and supervising investigations for criminal, counterintelligence, force protection, and terrorism matters involving Navy and USMC equities, service members, and affiliated civilian personnel assigned to DON installations, ships, and expeditionary forces in both domestic and international assignments.
Prior positions include tours as a Supervisory Special Agent at the Hawaii Field Office and the Marine West Field Office in southern California, overseeing teams responsible for complex investigations and proactive operations targeting crimes of homicide, rape, sexual assault, child physical and sexual abuse, larceny of government property, aggravated assault, narcotics distribution, and human trafficking. He conducted and supervised national security investigations and operations overseas in support of U.S Central Command and U.S. Africa Command during multiple deployments to Afghanistan and to the Horn of Africa. He is a certified law enforcement instructor, forensic interviewer, crisis and hostage negotiator, and former law enforcement weapons and tactics operator with the NCIS Regional Enforcement Action Capabilities Team (2017-2019).
Special Agent Mayo holds a B.A. in Government and Political Science from Berry College and a M.A. in International Relations/Foreign Policy from Georgia State University. He obtained an M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College (in-residence, with Distinction), and holds a Harvard University certificate in Political Philosophy.
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