Gregory F. ("Greg") Treverton is a
professor of the practice of international relations at the University of
Southern California after stepping down as chairman of the National
Intelligence Council in 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. Also, he 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). 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 Dividing Divided States, University
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.