David Gordon '71, National Intelligence Council, to Lecture March 9

Story posted March 06, 2006

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David Gordon '71.

David Gordon '71, vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), will deliver the lecture "Mapping the Global Future" at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 9, 2006, in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center.

The lecture is open to the public and admission is free.

David Gordon has served as NIC vice chairman since June 2004. The NIC is responsible for coordinating the analytic efforts of the 16 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community and serves as the senior substantive staff to the Director of National Intelligence.

Previously, Gordon served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Office of Transnational Issues (OTI).

He joined the intelligence community in May 1998, when he was appointed National Intelligence Officer for Economics and Global Issues on the NIC. He has directed major analytic projects on country-level economic and financial crises, emerging infectious disease risk, societal and humanitarian conflicts, global demographic trends, and the changing geopolitics of energy, as well as provided leadership for the NIC's seminal Global Trends 2015 and Mapping the Global Future reports.

Prior to his earlier service on the NIC, Gordon was senior fellow and director of the U.S. Policy Program at the Overseas Development Council. He also served as a senior staff member of the International Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and as the regional economic policy advisor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

In the 1980s, Gordon pursued an academic career with a joint appointment at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. Currently, he is an adjunct professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has also taught at the College of William and Mary, Princeton University, and the University of Nairobi.

Cambridge University Press will publish his latest book, Managing Strategic Surprise, later this year.

Gordon graduated from Bowdoin College in 1971 with a degree in government. He studied political science and economics in graduate school, and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1981.

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