Thursday, October 15, 2026 @ 6:00 PM, Tanoan Country Club, 10801 Academy Blvd NE

The Program: Stories from a Life Adventure in Public Service

Greg Treverton will talk about his experiences in national security, especially intelligence, and use stories from these experiences to illustrate his take on the world of intelligence and it’s role in the making of policy. His long career in this field has given him a deep exposure to the good, bad and so so operations of our national security apparatus.”.

Presenter: Gregory F. Treverton stepped down as Chair of the National Intelligence Council in January 2017. He is Chair, Global TechnoPolitics Forum and senior adviser to the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and professor emeritus of the practice of International Relations and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California. Earlier, he directed the RAND Corporation’s Center for Global Risk and Security and before that its Intelligence Policy Center and its International Security and Defense Policy Center. He has served in government for the first Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the National Security Council and Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council. He has taught at Harvard and Columbia universities, in addition to RAND, been a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He holds an AB summa cum laude from Princeton University and an MPP (Masters in Public Policy) and PhD in economics and politics from Harvard. His books include Telling Truth to Power: A History of the National Intelligence Council, (edited, with Robert Hutchings), Oxford University Press, 2019; and National Intelligence and Science: Beyond the Great Divide in Analysis and Policy, (with Wilhelm Agrell), Oxford University Press, 2015; and Dual Declines: The American Republic and the Liberal International Order, forthcoming.

Thursday, October 15, 2026
Tanoan
Country Club, 10801 Academy Blvd. NE