Complex Catastrophes: Improving Resilience of the Nation's Electric Grid
On
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012, HSPI will host an event as part of the Capstone
Series on Cyber Strategy, featuring The Honorable Paul Stockton, Assistant
Secretary for Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs.
Assistant Secretary Stockton will discuss how to best address vulnerabilities
of the electric power grid from physical and cyber threats.
We hope you will join us for
this important event.
Featured Speaker:
The Honorable Paul Stockton,
Assistant Secretary for Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security
Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense
Moderated By:
Frank J. Cilluffo
Director,
Homeland Security Policy Institute;
Director,
Homeland Security Policy Institute;
Co-Director,
Cyber Center for National and Economic
Security
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
9:00 am until 10:30 am
9:00 am until 10:30 am
The George Washington University
Elliott School of International Affairs
Seventh Floor | City View Room
1957 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052 | Map It
This event can also be seen online here
Speaker Biography:
Paul N. Stockton was
nominated by President Barack Obama to be the Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs on April 28, 2009, and was
confirmed by the Senate on May 18, 2009. In this position, he is responsible
for supervising the Department of Defense's homeland defense activities
(including Defense Critical Infrastructure Protection and other mission
assurance efforts), defense support of civil authorities, domestic crisis
management, and Western Hemisphere security matters.
Assistant Secretary Stockton received
a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College Summa Cum Laude in 1976, and a
doctorate in government from Harvard in 1986. From 1986-1989, Assistant
Secretary Stockton served as legislative assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, advising the senator on defense, intelligence, and counter-narcotics
policy, and serving as the Senator's personal representative to the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee. From 1989 - 1990, Assistant Secretary
Stockton was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Center for
International Security and Cooperation. During his graduate studies at Harvard,
he served as a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic
Studies in London.
Assistant Secretary Stockton joined
the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School in August 1990 as assistant
professor in the Department of National Security Affairs. From 1995 until 2000,
he served as Director of the Center for Civil-Military Relations, assisting
over 80 nations to strengthen democratic control over their security forces and
deepen security cooperation with the United States. In 2000, he founded and
served as the acting dean of the School of International Graduate Studies. He
was appointed Associate Provost for Institutional Development in 2001. From
2002 - 2006, Assistant Secretary Stockton established and served as Director of
the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, where he helped develop curricula
to strengthen U. S. all-hazards preparedness at local, state, and Federal
levels.
Prior to his confirmation, Assistant Secretary Stockton was a senior research scholar at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. His research focused on how United States security institutions respond to changes in the threat (including the rise of terrorism), and on the interaction of Congress and the Executive branch in restructuring national security budgets, policies, and institutional arrangements.
Assistant Secretary Stockton is co-editor of Homeland Security, a graduate text to be published by Oxford University Press. He served on the editorial review board of Homeland Security Affairs, a quarterly journal he helped establish in 2005. His research has appeared in Political Science Quarterly, International Security, and Strategic Survey. He is co-editor of Reconstituting America's Defense: America's New National Security Strategy (1992). He has also published an Adelphi Paper and has contributed chapters to a number of books.
HSPI's Capstone Series on Cyber
Strategy highlights distinguished leaders in the cyber domain and
their thinking on its ever-evolving challenges to our national and economic
security.
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