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Past Event
Seminar

Intelligence and National Security Challenges in the 21st Century

Open to the Public

In a conversation co-hosted by Secretary Ash Carter and Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Sir John Sawers, former Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and British Permanent Representative to the United Nations, will discuss today's intelligence and national security challenges.

Date: Time: - Location: Taubman Building - Darman Seminar Room, 1st Floor
Sir John Sawers at UN

ABOUT

Sir John Sawers is a Fisher Family Fellow (in residence February-March 2018). He was Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, from 2009 to 2014, a period of international upheaval and growing security threats as well as closer public scrutiny of the intelligence agencies. Prior to that, he was the United Kingdom’s ambassador to the United Nations (2007-2009), political director and main board member of the Foreign Office (2003-2007), special representative in Iraq (2003), ambassador to Egypt (2001-03) and foreign policy advisor to the Prime Minister (1999-2001). Earlier in his career, he was posted to Washington, South Africa, Syria and Yemen as a diplomat for the United Kingdom.