Gary Noesner
Former Chief Negotiator for the FBI who retired in 2003 following a year-long career as an investigator instructor, and negotiator
As a leading expert in the field, keynote speaker Gary Noesner has appeared before hundreds of law enforcement and corporate groups talking about Hostage Negotiation, Crisis Management, Kidnapping, Terrorism, and Workplace Violence. He has conducted training seminars and given presentations in all 50 states and over 40 countries around the world, and is regarded as a dynamic and informative speaker.
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Keynote speaker Gary Noesner retired from the FBI in 2003 following 30 year career as an investigator, instructor, and negotiator. A significant focus of his career was directed toward investigating Middle East hijackings in which American citizens were victimized. In addition, he was an FBI hostage negotiator for 23 years of his career, spending the last ten years as the Chief Negotiator for the FBI. He retired as the Chief of the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit, Critical Incident Response Group, the first person to hold that position. In that capacity was heavily involved in numerous crisis incidents covering prison riots, right-wing militia standoffs, religious zealot sieges, terrorist embassy takeovers, airplane hijackings, and over 120 overseas kidnapping cases involving American citizens.
Following his retirement from the FBI he became a Senior Vice President with Control Risks, an international risk consultancy, assisting clients in managing overseas kidnapping incidents involving their employees. Gary gives speeches and continues to do management consulting work part-time.
Sought-after speaker Gary Noesner has appeared in numerous television documentaries about hostage negotiation, terrorism, and kidnapping produced by the History Channel, Nat Geo, WE, Discovery, TLC, A&E, CNN, CBS, BBC, American Heroes Network, and others. He has been interviewed in Time, Forbes, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Roll Call, the Washingtonian Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. Gary has given speeches at major universities, done numerous radio and television interviews, and was the subject of an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air in 2010.
Speaker Gary Noesner has written a book about his FBI negotiation career which was published by Penguin Random House in 2010, entitled:
Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
. The book is being used in part as the basis for a six part mini-series on Waco that will air on the Paramount Network on January 24, 2018.
Following his retirement from the FBI he became a Senior Vice President with Control Risks, an international risk consultancy, assisting clients in managing overseas kidnapping incidents involving their employees. Gary gives speeches and continues to do management consulting work part-time.
Sought-after speaker Gary Noesner has appeared in numerous television documentaries about hostage negotiation, terrorism, and kidnapping produced by the History Channel, Nat Geo, WE, Discovery, TLC, A&E, CNN, CBS, BBC, American Heroes Network, and others. He has been interviewed in Time, Forbes, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Roll Call, the Washingtonian Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. Gary has given speeches at major universities, done numerous radio and television interviews, and was the subject of an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air in 2010.
Speaker Gary Noesner has written a book about his FBI negotiation career which was published by Penguin Random House in 2010, entitled:
Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
. The book is being used in part as the basis for a six part mini-series on Waco that will air on the Paramount Network on January 24, 2018.