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A Conversation with Kristin Wood: Observations from 20+ Years as a CIA Analyst

RSVP Required Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

The Intelligence Project will host a seminar with Kristin Wood, Former Deputy Director of the CIA's Open Innovation & Technology Group, from 1:15-2:300pm in the Belfer Center Library. Intelligence Project Director Paul Kolbe will moderate.  

A late lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis. Please RSVP below.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369
Kristin Wood

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Please join the Intelligence Project for a seminar with Kristin Wood where she will offer her observations from a 20+year career in the CIA: including the the process, substance, and value of the agency's analytic work, how it is properly delivered to top policymakers, and what makes a good intelligence consumer.

She'll also discuss the growing importance of open-source data and how the rapid technological development in the information age has fundamentally changed the way intelligence is analyzed, produced, and consumed. 

Kristin joined the Belfer Center as a non-resident fellow for the Intelligence Project in August of 2019. Ms. Wood formerly served as the Deputy Director, Innovation & Technology Group, Open Source Center, CIA.

During her 20-year CIA career, Ms. Wood served in the Director’s area and three Agency directorates—analysis, operations, and digital innovation—leading a wide variety of the Agency’s missions in positions of increasing authority. 

A late lunch will be served. Please RSVP below. 

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