Ellen Laipson
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| Alma mater | Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Council on Foreign Relations/Members 2, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, PIAB | ||||||||||||||||||||
Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council between 1997 and 2002, later leading a number of spooky think tanks.
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Ellen Laipson is a U.S. spook who was Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council between 1997 and 2002.
Education
She received a MA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and an AB from Cornell University.[1]
Career
She worked for the government for 25 years. Laipson worked in the State Department's policy planning staff, the National Security Council staff, and the Congressional Research Service.
Her last post in government was Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council.[2]
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, she is on the Advisory Councils of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.
Laipson was on the board of the Asia Foundation (2003-15) and the Council of the International Institute of Strategic Studies (2009-19). She was a member of the CIA External Advisory Panel from 2006-09, President Obama's Intelligence Advisory Board from 2009-13, and on the Secretary of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board 2011-14.[1]
She headed the Henry L. Stimson Center 2002-2015.
Laipson is the director of the Master's in International Security degree program and the Center for Security Policy Studies in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.[1]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Brussels Forum/2015 | 20 March 2015 | 22 March 2015 | Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Cleve | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The 2015 main theme was (R)evolution. |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2015 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada | ||
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2004 | 21 January 2004 | 25 January 2004 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres. |
