John Brennan

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Former Director of the CIA

John O. Brennan served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2013 to 2017 and spent nearly four decades at the center of U.S. national security decision-making. He advised six U.S. presidents, served as Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism to President Barack Obama, and was the founding Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Earlier in his career, he was the CIA’s daily intelligence briefer to President Bill Clinton. Today, Brennan is a Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company, a senior intelligence and national security analyst for NBC and MSNBC, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. He is also a trustee of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Undaunted. As a speaker, Brennan helps senior leaders understand global risk, make decisions under uncertainty, and navigate an increasingly volatile geopolitical and security environment.