Dr. Loch Johnson
Dr. Johnson is the Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia and author of over 100 articles and several books on U.S. national security, most recently Seven Sins of American Foreign Policy (Longman, 2007) and Handbook of Intelligence Studies (Routledge, 2007). He has served as special assistant to the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (1975-76), the first staff director of the House Subcommittee on Intelligence Oversight (1977-79), and special assistant to Chairman Les Aspin on the Aspin-Brown Commission on Intelligence (1995-1996). He has won the Certificate of Distinction from the National Intelligence Study Center, the Studies in Intelligence Award from the Center for the Study of Intelligence, and the V.O. Key Prize from the Southern Political Science Association. He has served as secretary of the American Political Science Association and as president of the International Studies Association, South. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Professor Johnson received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Riverside. At the University of Georgia, he has won the Josiah Meigs Prize, the University’s highest teaching honor, as well as the Owens Award, its highest research honor in the social sciences. He also led the founding of the new School of Public and International Affairs at the University in 2001.
Dr. Mark M. Lowenthal
An internationally recognized expert on intelligence, is the President and CEO of the Intelligence & Security Academy, LLC, a national security education, training and consulting company.
From 2002-2005, Dr. Lowenthal served as the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production and also as the Vice Chairman for Evaluation on the National Intelligence Council. Prior to these duties, he served as Counselor to the Director of Central Intelligence.
Dr. Lowenthal was the staff director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the 104th Congress (1995-97), where he directed the committee’s study on the future of the Intelligence Community, IC21: The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century. He has also served in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), as both an office director and as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State. He was also the Senior Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Dr. Lowenthal has written extensively on intelligence and national security issues, including five books and over 90 articles or studies. His most recent book, Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy (Congressional Quarterly Press, 3rd ed., October 2005), has become the standard college and graduate school textbook on the subject. He has also written a fantasy novel, Crispan Magicker, published in 1978.
Dr. Lowenthal received his B.A. from Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. He is also the Executive Director of the International Association for Intelligence Education, a member of the Joint Military Intelligence College Foundation board and a Chairman Emeritus of the Intelligence Committee for AFCEA.
In 2005, Dr. Lowenthal was awarded the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the Intelligence Community’s highest award. In 2006, he received AFCEA’s Distinguished Service Award for service to the Intelligence Community. In 1988, Dr. Lowenthal was the Grand Champion on Jeopardy!, the television quiz show.
Rear Admiral Christopher Weaver, Retired
Rear Admiral-retired Chris Weaver is an independent consultant and advisor with an extensive background in Defense base infrastructure management; strategic organizational change; environmental compliance and community outreach and information technology streamlining. In early 2006, Rear Admiral Weaver completed a 36 year Navy career, retiring from command of all Navy Installations worldwide.
Rear Admiral Weaver has achieved a reputation as an expert in the innovative management of the Navy’s global shore-based infrastructure, and has led efforts on behalf of DoD to achieve transformation of all Service components’ base management processes and organizations. His broad and varied career background, and his education and experience in public administration, defense business operations, and strategic defense logistics and support processes have expanded his potential to make wider impact for positive change.
As the first Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNI), Rear Admiral Weaver created the equivalent of a $9 billion “startup” enterprise by aggregating the operations, personnel and resources of over 80 bases worldwide, representing $122 billion in plant property, as well as the base support responsibilities for Fleet operations around the globe. He also implemented business-based principles of measuring outputs versus resources expended; creating a functional model that defines the process comprising shore support for the Navy. Moreover, this model provided to Navy leadership for the first time, visibility of cost/benefit/risk in resource allocation decision making. The net effect of this effort was the intelligent saving and reallocation of Navy resources totaling $12.8 billion, or 23%, of the FY 05 to FY 11 budget program.
He developed comprehensive Emergency Management and Antiterrorism/Force Protection Programs for Navy regions and installations. The success of this effort was reflected in the outstanding Navy response to the hurricanes of 2005 on the Gulf Coast and in the improved security postures of Navy bases and installations around the world.
Rear Admiral Weaver is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Class of 1971. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Naval Academy and a Master of Public Administration degree from The George Washington University. He is also a Distinguished Graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University. He possesses top security clearances.
