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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Student Session with Marcel Lettre on Tuesday, October 7th in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
Marcel Lettre is Senior National Security Advisor to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, supporting the formulation of Senate Democratic national security priorities and strategy. He has worked on legislation and policy on major strategic challenges such as foreign intelligence collection, Iran, Iraq, nuclear proliferation, counterterrorism, and military readiness.
Prior to joining Senator Reid in March 2005, Marcel served three years on the staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence under Congresswoman Jane Harman, where he worked on Libya, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, and other weapons proliferation and counterterrorism matters. During his service, he worked on the after-action reviews of intelligence regarding the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Iraqi WMD, and worked on the 2004 intelligence reorganization law that created the Director of National Intelligence.
Previously, Marcel worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a global management consulting firm, and in research roles for the congressional commission examining the organization of the US government on WMD chaired by John M. Deutch, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project chaired by William J. Perry and Ashton B. Carter.
Marcel is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has a masters degree from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a bachelors degree from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
Marcel grew up in an Army family and is an avid outdoorsman and hiker, having once backpacked the full 2,100-mile length of the Appalachian Trail.
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