As the stellar 2023-2024 World Affairs Council of Jacksonville season comes to a close, we celebrate all we have accomplished and begin looking to the future.
Members and Sponsors are invited to attend the 2024 Annual Meeting featuring keynote speaker, Dr. Derek S. Reveron. Dr. Reveron will share his insights and more from his book titled, Security in the Cyber Age.
Before Dr. Reveron's presentation, enjoy hors d'oeuvres, a cash bar, and opportunities to meet those impacted and engaged by the work of the World Affairs Council.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Derek S. Reveron is chair of the National Security Affairs Department at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and is a faculty affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.
He specializes in strategy development, non-state security challenges, and US defense policy. He served as a governor-appointed
commissioner on the Rhode Island Cybersecurity Commission.
He has authored or edited 13 books that include Human and National Security, the Oxford Hand of U.S. National Security, and Exporting Security: International Engagement, Security Cooperation, and the Changing Face of the US Military.
He served over 32 years in the Navy Reserves with assignments with the Joint Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe, and NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan. He commanded units in support of US Southern Command, Naval Forces Central Command, US Pacific Command, and US European Command.
Before joining the Naval War College faculty in 2004, Reveron taught political science at the US Naval Academy. During graduate school, he formulated, implemented and evaluated democracy promotion programs for the NGO Heartland International. He graduated form the College of Naval Command Staff through the College of Distance Education Fleet seminar program and completed the maritime staff operators course at the Naval War College.
He received an MA in political science and a PhD in public policy analysis from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Harvard recognized Dr. Reveron for teaching through Petra Shattuck Excellence in Teaching Award and the ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Award.