Join Watson Senior Fellow Jim Langevin, former Congressman for Rhode Island’s 2nd District, for a fireside chat with Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence. This wide-ranging discussion will include an overview of the function of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and an examination of the most pressing threats facing the country today. They’ll cover the cyber threat landscape, and they’ll discuss AI and how it will make the work of the intelligence community easier and more effective, but also create more difficulties in dealing with adversaries.
Avril Haines was sworn in as the Director of National Intelligence on January 21, 2021. She is the seventh Senate-confirmed DNI in our nation’s history and the first woman to lead the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Director Haines has deep national security experience. During the Obama administration, she served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor from 2015-2017, during which time she led the National Security Council’s Deputies Committee. From 2013-2015, Haines was the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. She was the first woman to hold both of these positions. She initially joined the federal government as a civil servant and over the last two decades has worked in all three branches of government, in and outside of the intelligence community, and in academia as a research scholar at Columbia University and a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Haines most recently led the Transition’s National Security and Foreign Policy Team and served as a member of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service.
Haines received her bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Chicago and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center
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