Event Date: November 4, 2008 - 12:00 pm
Location: room 4004, 120 University Private,Social Sciences Building,

A talk by Cindy Williams, Principal Research Scientist, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Co-sponsors: Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program, University of Ottawa.

Registration is not required. This event will be in English.

Dr. Williams current research focuses on the processes by which the U.S. government plans for, and allocates resources to, national security and international affairs programs and activities. Previously, she was Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office, a member of the Senior Executive Service in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, and a mathematician at the RAND Corporation, among other positions in government and the private sector.

This event is part of the CIPS series on US Foreign Policy After Bus