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.
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.
