The Center for International Trade and Security presents the

CITS Signature Lecture

“The Role of National Security Intelligence in the U.S. Federal Government”

presented by

Dr. Loch K. Johnson

Regents Professor Emeritus
UGA School of Public and International Affairs

WHEN:

Friday, April 14, 2023
Reception  |  4:00 PM
Program  |  5:00 PM

WHERE:

UGA Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries
Room 285
300 S. Hull Street
Athens, GA 30602

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Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor Emeritus of Public and International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at the University of Georgia.  He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Riverside, and is the author of over thirty books. He has been an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow; a Visiting Fellow at Yale and Oxford Universities; a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar; and, for eighteen years (2001-2019), editor-in-chief of the international journal Intelligence and National Security.  He also served in the U.S. government as the senior aide to the chairman of the Church Committee on Intelligence in the Senate, as well as the chairman of the Aspin-Brown Commission on Intelligence in the White House.  He was the first staff director of the Subcommittee on Oversight in the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.  At the University of Georgia he led the founding of SPIA, established in 2001.  The consortium of universities that comprise the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in the United States selected Professor Johnson as its inaugural “Professor of the Year” in 2012; and the University presented him with its Presidential Medal in 2022.