We are delighted to offer our newest Advanced Alperovitch Workshop: Demystifying the U.S. Government Inter-Agency Process & Intelligence Collection Authorities, with Elly Rostoum.
SAIS Hopkins students, please register by Dec 2, 2024, here.
Non-SAIS participants, please contact Prof. Elly Rostoum ([email protected]).
WHEN: 2 DAYS – Sunday, Dec 8 and Monday, Dec 9, 2024 | 10-4 PM.
WHERE: JHU Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Course Description:
This intensive short course aims to demystify the U.S. Government (USG)’s Interagency process – the highly complex work of coordination amongst various USG agencies, departments, congress, etc. We will explore the role of the major actors in this process, and the central role that the White House National Security Council plays through collaboration, coordination, negotiation, policy development, and decision-making. The second half of the course examines the USG’s intelligence collection authorities – the legal and regulatory frameworks that govern how the intelligence community can collect, analyze, and disseminate intelligence on both foreign and domestic persons, while ensuring compliance with U.S. laws. We will wrap up our course by simulating the inter-agency process in response to an intelligence requirement/crisis.
About Elly Rostoum:
Elly Rostoum is a former U.S. intelligence analyst and National Security Council staffer at the White House. She is currently the Managing Director of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Concurrently, Elly is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a Lecturer in Strategic Studies at the Krieger School for Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Elly was the recipient of the 2024 Johns Hopkins Nexus Award in Teaching, and the 2023 Johns Hopkins University Discovery Award for Research, which recognize researchers who are poised to arrive at important discoveries or creative works. Elly is the Principal Investigator of the BULL DRAGON Project, which tracks Chinese capital flows, and uncovers and maps the incorporation of Chinese firms undertaking foreign direct investment. Elly’s research examines American national security vulnerabilities of foreign direct investment, with a focus on foundational and critical and emerging technologies in the AI, finance, biotech, and the IoT sectors. Elly is an expert on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ (CFIUS) governance. Her current book project, CFIUS in the 21st Century The Guardian of the Technology Revolution, examines the American and the Chinese conceptualizations of national security, and their implications on how each nation defines their grand strategies vis-à-vis one another. Elly teaches courses on national security vulnerabilities of critical and emerging technologies, public policy, and strategic studies; with a regional expertise covering China and the Middle East. More on Elly here: www.EllyRostoum.com