Gregory F. ("Greg") Treverton is an American foreign policy and intelligence executive. Treverton was the chairperson of the U.S. National Intelligence Council from 2014-2017 and vice chair from 1993-1995. He is also a professor at the University of Southern California and a visiting senior fellow at the Swedish Defence University.

Biography

From 2007 to 2014, Treverton was a Senior Fellow, Stockholm, Sweden.^[1] Between 2000 and 2014, he served at the Rand Corporation as the Director for the Center for Global Risk and Security (2009-2014), Director of Intelligence Policy Center (2004-2005), and a senior researcher (2000-2009) at the Rand Corporation.^[2] From 1998 to 2000 he served at the Pacific Council on International Policy, as president and before Vice President and Director of Studies.^[3] He is currently a member of the Advisory Board at the Oxford Analytica,^[4]

Treverton graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1969 after completing a 181-page-long senior thesis titled "Politics and Petroleum: The International Petroleum Company in Peru."^[5]

He received an M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1972 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Managing the politics and economics of alliance: the balance of payments and American forces in Germany."^[6][7]

Treverton was one of the 51 former U.S. intelligence officials who signed the October 19, 2020, letter that said the Hunter Biden laptop story "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."^[8] It was in fact revealed the laptop contained no evidence of Russian disinformation, and portions of its contents have been verified as authentic.^[9]

In 2021, Treverton was implicated in a dispute with Oxford University Press and a former graduate student regarding his 2015 book National Intelligence and Science:  Beyond the Great Divide in Analysis and Policy. Oxford University Press found that Treverton had plagiarized a substantial portion of a chapter in his book from white papers by the graduate student, who was eventually named a co-author of the chapter.^[10][11]

Bibliography

Publications include:^[12]

• Telling Truth to Power: A History of the National Intelligence Council, (edited, with Robert Hutchings) (Oxford University Press, 2019)
• National Intelligence and Science:  Beyond the Great Divide in Analysis and Policy, (with Wilhelm Agrell) (Oxford University Press, 2015)
• Dividing Divided States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
• Making Strategic Analysis Matter (with Jeremy Ghez) (CF-287-NIC, RAND, 2012)
• How Americans Will Live and Work in 2020:  A Workshop Exploring Key Trends and Philanthropic Responses (with others) (CF-299, RAND, 2012)
• Threats without Threateners? Exploring Intersections of Threats to the Global Commons and National Security (with others) (OP-360, RAND, 2011)
• Moving toward the Future of Policing (with others) (MG-1102, RAND, 2011)
• Making Policy in the Shadow of the Future (OP-298-RC, RAND Corporation, 2010)
• National Intelligence Systems: Current Research and Future Prospects, (edited, with Wilhelm Agrell) (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• Intelligence for an Age of Terror (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• Film Piracy, Organized Crime and Terrorism (with others) (RAND, 2009)
• Reorganizing U.S. Domestic Intelligence:  Assessing the Options (RAND, 2008)
• Assessing the Tradecraft of Intelligence Analysis (with C. Bryan Gabbard) (TR-293, RAND Corporation, 2008)
• New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking (edited, with Stuart Johnson and Martin Libicki) (RAND, 2003)
• Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
• Latin America in a New World (edited, with Abraham F. Lowenthal) (Westview Press, 1994)
• Making American Foreign Policy (casebook) (Prentice-Hall, 1993)
• America, Germany and the Future of Europe (Princeton University Press, 1992)
• Rethinking America's Security (edited, with Graham T. Allison) (W.W. Norton, 1992)
• The Shape of the New Europe (edited) (Council on Foreign Relations, 1992)
• Alternative to Intervention:  A New U.S.-Latin American Security Relationship (edited, with Richard J. Bloomfield) (Lynne Rienner, 1990)
• Europe and America Beyond 2000 (edited) (Council on Foreign Relations, 1989)
• Covert Action:  The Limits of Intervention in the Postwar World (Basic Books, 1987)
• Europe, America and South Africa, (edited) (Council on Foreign Relations, 1988)

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