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.