To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
Paul Hollingsworth will draw on his time on the National Security Council staff and 27 years in the CIA to discuss the interplay between policy and intelligence, including how it works in both theory and in practice.
Mr. Hollingsworth has been the intelligence advisor on Eurasia for BP since September 2014. He previously served for 27 years in a variety of capacities in the Central Intelligence Agency, including overseas assignments in Russia and Greece and a domestic assignment at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For the final two years of his government career he was the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs on the National Security Council staff at the White House.
He has a B.A. in Catholic theology from Georgetown University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Byzantine and Medieval Slavic Studies from the University of California (Berkeley).