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Adapting Intelligence for New National Security Challenges

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Channel: AtlanticCouncil · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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A DISCUSSION WITH 
Gregory F. Treverton
Chairman
US National Intelligence Council 

MODERATED BY
Frederick Kempe
President and CEO
Atlantic Council

Intelligence analysis is pivotal for informing and sustaining all of our national security efforts. In the last few decades, the US intelligence community has helped thwart terrorists and chart out the impacts of key global trends but it has also had its shortfalls, such as projecting the rapid spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). As technology evolves and proliferates, as nonstate actors build more sophisticated, complex networks, and entire regions are reshaped, the work of this community must adapt. 
To address these issues, Dr. Gregory F. Treverton will join the Atlantic Council for his first public on-the-record speech in his new role as the chairman of the US National Intelligence Council.     

Before assuming his current post, Dr. Treverton was director of RAND's Center for Global Risk and Security, as well as a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School (PRGS), where he has served as associate dean for research of PRGS. Prior to joining RAND, he was vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council, where he oversaw production of the government's premier assessments of international problems, the National Intelligence Estimates. He has worked in the first Senate Intelligence Committee, and the National Security Council. He has been the president of the Pacific Council of International Policy and the director of Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He was on the faculty of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia.

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