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The Belfer Center will host a Director's Lunch with Amy B. Zegart, Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University.
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Lunch with Amy B. Zegart, Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University.
Amy Zegart is Co-Director of CISAC and Professor of Political Science, by courtesy. She is also the Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Before coming to Stanford in 2011, Zegart served as Professor of Public Policy at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and as a Fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations. Her research examines the organization of American national security agencies and their effectiveness. She is the author of two award-winning books. Flawed by Design, which chronicles the development of the Central Intelligence Agency, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and National Security Council won the highest national dissertation award in political science. Spying Blind, which examines why American intelligence agencies failed to adapt to the terrorist threat before 9/11, won the National Academy of Public Administration’s Brownlow Book Award. She has also published in International Security, Political Science Quarterly, and other leading academic journals. She serves on the editorial boards of Terrorism and Political Violence and Intelligence and National Security. Her most recent book is Eyes on Spies: Congress and the United States Intelligence Community.
A former Fulbright scholar, Zegart received an AB in East Asian studies magna cum laude from Harvard University and an MA and PhD in political science from Stanford University.
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