Executive Director, Center for Excellence in Policing and Public Safety
University of South Carolina School of Law
New York, New York, United States
Maureen “Mo” McGough is the Executive Director of the Center for Excellence in Policing and Public Safety (EPPS) at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Previously, she served as Chief of Strategic Initiatives for the Policing Project at the New York University School of Law where she oversaw collaborative efforts to establish basic minimum standards for fair and effective policing. Mo joined the Policing Project from the National Policing Institute, where she led the non-profit’s training, and technical assistance efforts as Director of National Programs. Prior to joining the National Policing Institute, Maureen spent a decade with the federal government in various roles with the US Department of Justice and US Department of State. She served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Director of the National Institute of Justice – the USDOJ’s research, development, and evaluation agency – where she led agency efforts to advance evidence-based policing and implement systems-level criminal justice reform initiatives. Additional federal experience includes serving as counsel on terrorism prevention to the Deputy Attorney General, Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and coordinator for federal AIDS relief efforts through the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda. Maureen is the co-founder of the 30×30 Initiative to advance women in policing. She is a member of the FBI’s Law Enforcement Education and Training Council, an executive board member for the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing, and is a recent public leadership executive fellow with the Brookings Institution. Maureen is an attorney and earned her J.D. from the George Washington University Law School.
A Global Investigation into Evidence-Based Policing
Monday, October 21, 2024
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET