Dr. Lestrange is the Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer for METIS Intelligence, North America. METIS is a leading provider of AI driven intelligence solutions to law enforcement, public safety, and security agencies. He is also a founding Research Fellow at the newly launched Future Policing Institute, Center on Policing and Artificial Intelligence (COP-AI).
Dr. Joseph J. Lestrange served more than three decades as a commissioned federal law enforcement officer, serving in multiple international, national, regional, and local leadership roles. In his last year of government service, Dr. Lestrange was appointed as Senior Agency Official to the U.S. Council on Transnational Organized Crime – Strategic Division, created by the President of the United States via Executive Order to develop “whole of government” solutions to complex public safety and national security challenges.
He retired in from federal service in June 2022 as the Division Chief of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) National Headquarters, Public Safety & National Security Division, where he provided executive oversight over all budget formulation, stakeholder engagement, resource development, strategic planning, and case coordination for multiple law enforcement intelligence, interdiction, and investigation units; agency programs, federal task forces and strategic multi-agency operational initiatives across the globe.
To prepare future leaders, Dr. Lestrange is also a Course Developer and Adjunct Professor in Criminal Justice Management, Leadership, and Organizational Assessment for Tiffin University’s PhD programs in Criminal Justice, Global Leadership and Change Management; and an Adjunct Professor at Indiana Institute of Technology’s, College of Business and Continuing Professional Studies for MBA and undergraduate courses in Strategy, Sustainability, Homeland Security, and Emergency Management. He has supervised PhD dissertations in the areas of Police Recruitment & Retention, Adaptive Leadership, and Leading Multi-generational workforces.
