The Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS) at the University of Pretoria cordially invites you to a public lecture titled

“Trump’s Threat to Democracy and the Future of the Global Order”

presented by Gregory F. Treverton.

Gregory Treverton will be joined by session chair, Professor Peter Vale (Senior Research Fellow, CAS, UP) and discussant, Professor Christopher Isike (Director, African Centre for the Study of the United States, UP).

Date: Tuesday, 15 April 2025

Time: 12:00 – 13:30

Venue: Old College House Seminar Room, Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria

RSVP: By Friday, 11 April 2025 to Ms Ayanda Sihlahla.

Enquiries: Ms Ayanda Sihlahla, [email protected], 012 420 4093

Gregory F. Treverton stepped down as Chair of the National Intelligence Council in January 2017. He is Chair, Global TechnoPolitics Forum and senior adviser to the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a professor of the practice of international relations and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California. Earlier, he directed the RAND Corporation’s Center for Global Risk and Security and before that its Intelligence Policy Center and its International Security and Defense Policy Center. He has served in government for the first Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the National Security Council and Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council. He has taught at Harvard and Columbia universities, in addition to RAND, been a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He holds an AB summa cum laude from Princeton University and an MPP (Master’s in Public Policy) and PhD in economics and politics from Harvard. His latest books are Telling Truth to Power: A History of the National Intelligence Council, (edited, with Robert Hutchings), Oxford University Press, 2019; and National Intelligence and Science: Beyond the Great Divide in Analysis and Policy, (with Wilhelm Agrell), Oxford University Press, 2015.