The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs will be hosting Challenges and Opportunities of a Changing Intelligence Landscape, featuring a fireside chat between two Nunn School Distinguished Professors of the Practice. Joining us will be Adm. Sandy Winnefeld, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Honorable Stacey Dixon, former principal deputy director of national intelligence. Together, they will discuss the changing face of intelligence in light of evolving political, strategic, and technological landscapes. The second session will be a conversation with Robert Gray, vice president and head of enterprise security at Cox Enterprises, who will discuss the changing role of open-source information and new analytic tools in corporate strategic intelligence. In particular, he will discuss how the expanding volume and variety of open-source information are changing the way companies identify and assess risks, and how the practice of strategic intelligence in the corporate world compares with its use in government.
This program would not be possible without the generous support provided by Deloitte and the Colleen O. Nunn Professorship in Global Strategic Intelligence.
About the Speakers
Adm. Sandy Winnefeld graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in aerospace engineering and served for 37 years in the United States Navy. He flew the F-14 Tomcat, instructed at the Navy Fighter Weapons School, also known as Topgun, and served as senior aide-de-camp to General Colin L. Powell. He subsequently commanded a fighter squadron, the amphibious ship USS CLEVELAND, the aircraft carrier USS ENTERPRISE, and the THEODORE ROOSEVELT Carrier Strike Group. He subsequently commanded NATO Joint Command Lisbon, Striking and Support Forces NATO, the United States SIXTH Fleet, United States NORTHERN Command, and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, also known as NORAD. He retired in 2015 after four years as the ninth Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nation’s number two ranking military officer.
Winnefeld is a frequently published author and a director or advisory board member for several companies operating in a broad spectrum of business sectors. He currently serves as Distinguished Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech, where he is also a member of the Engineering Hall of Fame. He is also a senior non-resident fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
The Honorable Stacey A. Dixon built a distinguished career at the intersection of national security, intelligence, and advanced technology. From her early days as a Central Intelligence Agency engineer supporting the National Reconnaissance Office, to becoming the 6th Senate-confirmed Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Dixon has been a driving force in intelligence integration, cutting-edge research, and strategic leadership.
She also served as the 8th Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Deputy Director and Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, and as a Professional Staff Member on the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Robert Gray, vice president and head of enterprise security at Cox Enterprises, brings nearly three decades of experience spanning corporate security, crisis management, executive protection, investigations, and federal law enforcement. Before joining Cox Enterprises, Gray served as director of global security at Novelis and held senior international security positions at Western Union and First Data Corporation. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly nine years as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service. His assignments included complex financial and organized-crime investigations, protective intelligence and operations, and work with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. In the aftermath of September 11, he also worked on terrorism investigations and helped identify terrorist-financing activity while serving as a liaison with the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Gray has also served since 2007 as an adjunct professor at Bellevue University, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in security management as well as courses in its Master of Public Administration program.