Join the Department of Economics in
welcoming Michael McConnell, The United States Director
of National Intelligence,
back to the Furman campus. Vice Admiral McConnell, a Furman
graduate and Economics Department alum, will offer a public
address on global intelligence and U.S. national security,
highlighting the greatest challenges facing our country.
Biography:
Mike McConnell was sworn in as the nation's
second Director of National Intelligence on February 13,
2007.
Before his nomination as DNI, McConnell had served as
a Senior Vice President with the consulting firm Booz Allen
Hamilton, focusing on the Intelligence and National Security
areas.
From 1992 to 1996, McConnell served as Director of the
National Security Agency (NSA). He led NSA as it adapted
to the multi-polar threats brought about by the end of
the Cold War. Under his leadership, NSA routinely provided
global Intelligence and Information Security Services to
the White House, Cabinet officials and the Congress in
addition to a broad array of military and civil intelligence
customers. He also served as a member of the Director of
Central Intelligence senior leadership team to address
major intelligence programmatic and substantive issues
from 1992 until 1996.
Prior to his service at NSA and during Desert Shield/Storm
and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, McConnell worked
as the Intelligence Officer (J2) for the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense.
In 1996, McConnell retired as a Vice Admiral in the U.S.
Navy after 29 years of service - 26 as a career Intelligence
Officer. He holds a M.P.A. from George Washington University,
is a graduate of the National Defense University (Global
Telecom), the National Defense Intelligence College (Strategic
Intelligence), and holds a B.A. in Economics from Furman
University. In addition to many of the nation's highest
military awards for meritorious service, he holds the nation's
highest award for service in the Intelligence Community.
He also served as the Chairman and CEO of the Intelligence
and National Security Alliance.
McConnell was born on July 26, 1943 in Greenville, South
Carolina where he lived, grew up and first attended college.
He
graduated from Wade Hampton High School, and first attended
college at North Greenville Junior College.
He holds an M.P.A. from George Washington University, is
a graduate of the National Defense University and the National
Defense Intelligence College (Strategic Intelligence),
and holds a B.A. in Economics from Furman University.
He is married to Terry McConnell, and together they have
four
children and six grandchildren.
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