Profile

Gregory F. Treverton is Professor of the Practice of International Relations and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California.

He served as chairman of the National Intelligence Council from September 2014 to January 2017. 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 also was associate dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

He has served in government for the first Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, handling Europe for the National Security Council and as vice chair of the National Intelligence Council, overseeing the writing of America’s National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs).  In addition to RAND, he has taught at Harvard and Columbia universities, has been a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and also Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

His latest books are Dividing Divided StatesUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2014; and Beyond the Great Divide: Relevance and Uncertainty in National Intelligence and Science for Policy (with Wilhelm Agrell), Oxford University Press, 2015.

Read this USC Dornsife article about him: https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/2864/treverton-global-respect-low-despite-trump-claim/

Education

Ph.D., Public Policy, Harvard University, 1975
M.P.P., Kennedy School of Government, 1972
A.B., Public and International Affairs, summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1969