Gregory M. Vecchi - BIOGRAPHY

Gregory M. Vecchi, Ph.D., retired from the FBI in February 2014 after 29 years of combined service in the military and as a federal agent. During his career, Dr. Vecchi investigated Russian organized crime, international drug trafficking, international and domestic terrorism, and violent crime. Dr. Vecchi was the Chief of the FBI’s legendary Behavioral Science Unit and a career crisis and hostage negotiator. 

Dr. Vecchi is the principal of Vecchi Group International, LLC where provides expert witnesses services, consultation, and training in s and provides training in the areas of confirmation bias, crisis intervention, crisis management, firearms and defensive tactics, hostage negotiation, interview and interrogation, offender behavioral analysis, personal protection, police procedures, policy development and implementation, active killer threat assessment, and use-of-force matters.



Dr. Vecchi is a Professor of Criminal Justice and Homeland Security for Keiser University, where he is the Director of the Master of Arts in Criminal Justice and Master of Arts in Homeland Security. Dr. Vecchi develops and instructs courses in both the master’s degree programs as well as the Ph.D. in Criminal Justice and Criminology and the Doctor of Criminal Justice.

Dr. Vecchi is currently a Reserve Deputy Sheriff with the Clinton County, Missouri Sheriff’s Office, where he conducts use-of-force training in de-escalation and firearms. Dr. Vecchi also responds to barricaded crisis situations as their crisis negotiator.