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Interview conducted 29 May 2026 with Farid Moussa, Former SES NSA Officer, VP for Business Development, Babel Street, discussing the influence of the American University of Beirut [AUB] on its role on shaping Lebanon, the region, and the political movements there. Watch the video on the AFIO Now Videos & Podcasts page.
FARID MOUSSA is a former SES NSA Officer. Farid started his career as an Analyst in 2008 and rose to the Senior Service Executive (SES) NSA cadre. In his last position with the government, he led the Video, Image, Speech, and Text Analytics (VISTA) effort. Having guided language analysis teams for the counterterrorism target set in the post-9/11 era, he developed a deep appreciation for human language technology and its role in prosecuting the mission. Over the past 15 years he drove the development of several VISTA service capabilities, empowering over ten thousand analysts within the U.S. Intelligence Community. Farid was a two-time keynote speaker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Lincoln Lab biannual Human Language Technology Applications conference. He is a recipient of the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Rank.
In 2020, he joined Basis Technology as a Senior Product Manager and later became the Director of Product - Public Sector. In 2022, he moved to Babel Street, where he held the positions of Director of Strategy, Public Sector, and currently serves as the VP for Business Development. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from The State University of New York in 1998. Prior to that, he studied Technical Theatre and Theatre Design & Technology at Penn State University from 1985 to 1989.