Shawn B. Stith

Mr. Shawn Stith began his current assignment as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency senior representative to the U.S. Africa Command in July 2015. In this role, he ensures the command has access to the full spectrum of NGA's Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) products and services. He similarly advises the commander and key staff on broader GEOINT issues and partnerships. Throughout his tenure with NGA, Mr. Stith also held leadership roles in the areas of GEOINT community functional management, expeditionary operations, and financial management. During a U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) rotational assignment, he also served as the Deputy Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Resource Management, managing the IC's National Intelligence Program (NIP). 

Mr. Stith was externally assigned in 2011-2014 with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan where he led international coalition efforts to develop, reform. And sustain the Afghan Ministry of Interior and the operational Afghan National Police forces that it supported. He similarly coordinated the efforts of numerous non-ISAF international partners in developing organic, enduring Afghan capabilities. Prior to joining NGA's civilian workforce in 2004, Mr. Stith served as a career Marine Corps intelligence officer. He first enlisted in July, 1978 and held a wide range of staff and command assignments including service with Marine Expeditionary Forces headquartered in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and Okinawa, Japan and with joint commands located in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and Suffolk, Virginia. Mr. Stith earned a Master of Arts degree in National Security Affairs / Intelligence from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Central Florida.