Alumnus Gen. Michael Hayden to Discuss Global Security, Address Veterans

Duquesne alumnus Gen. Michael V. Hayden will return to campus on Friday, Nov. 9, to present Global Security in the 21^st Century, a free, public lecture at 3 p.m. in the PNC Recital Hall. In addition, he will deliver the keynote address at the 14^th annual Veterans Day Breakfast at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 10, in the Union Ballroom.

Hayden, a retired United States Air Force four-star general, is a principal of The Chertoff Group and also serves as a national security advisor for the Romney campaign.

The Nov. 9 lecture, which is sponsored by the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, is timely as it will occur just three days after the 2012 presidential election. In his remarks, Hayden will focus on a group on international individuals—including the newly elected president—and their influence on world security.

Hayden served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006-2009 and was the nation’s first principal deputy director of national intelligence from 2005-2008 and was the highest-ranking intelligence officer in the armed forces.

He also directed the National Security Agency from 1999-2005. Hayden also served as commander of the Air Intelligence Agency, director of the Joint Command and Control Warfare Center, and chief of the Central Security Office.

He is considered an expert in technological intelligence and counterintelligence, global politics and terrorist risk analysis, and the structure and strategy of the American intelligence community. Hayden earned a bachelor’s degree in 1967 and a master’s degree in 1969, both in history, from the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts.

At the Veterans Day Breakfast, Hayden’s address will be part of a program that also will include a presentation of the Seven Seals Award to Duquesne on behalf of the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve. The award, which is presented at both the state and national levels, honors support for service members from all seven Reserve components. It is one of the highest honors awarded by a military organization for its support of the military and veterans.

More than 600 guests are expected at the Veterans Day Breakfast, the largest breakfast of its kind in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Tickets are $35 per person and tables of 10 are available for $350. Contact the Office of University Events at UniversityEvents@duq.edu or 412.396.6033 for questions. Proceeds from the breakfast will benefit Friends of Danang and Shepherd’s Heart Fellowship.