Eric Talbot is the chief of the Southwest Border Threats Branch at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Talbot previously worked as a border security analyst at the Department of Homeland Security, a counternarcotics analyst at the U.S. Department of Navy, and as a consular fraud analyst at the U.S. Department of State. He received an MA in international affairs from George Washington University in 2004. BA, international affairs, 2001