Intelligence: Warning and Crisis

Intelligence: effective warning and crisis prevention

Wednesday 13 April 2022 | 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Room Eugène d'Eichtal (room 35), 27 rue Saint-Guillaume

Registration compulsory: please register here

Professor Sir David Omand will examine how governments are caught by surprise regarding both external (and/or) national security threats. He will consider availability of detectable evidence, where and how to look for the more difficult-to-find evidence, and the extent to which evidence is understood and acted upon. He will examine the secret intelligence model for warning, before considering processes for providing strategic notice of possible developments of serious concern.

>Sir David Omand has held several positions at the highest level in the field of intelligence and counter-terrorism in the United Kingdom, including being the first UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator in the Cabinet Office. He is currently a visiting professor at King's College London.

GUEST SPEAKER

David Omand
Former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator in the Cabinet Office

David Omand is Visiting Professor in War Studies, King’s College London. He also taught a course at PSIA from 2014 to 2021. His posts in government service included UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator in the Cabinet Office, Permanent Secretary of the Home Office, Director GCHQ, and Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Policy in MOD. He served for 7 years on the Joint Intelligence Committee. He is the author of Securing the State (Hurst, 2010) and co-author with Professor Mark Phythian of Principled Spying: the Ethics of Secret Intelligence (OUP, 2018). His latest book is How Spies Think: 10 Lessons from Intelligence (Penguin, 2021).

MODERATOR

Philippe Hayez
Former Deputy Director, French External Intelligence Service ; PSIA faculty member

Philippe Hayez has been serving as a French civil servant in the field of defense and security since 25 years. Born in 1961, a graduate of Sciences-Po Paris and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, he is currently in the French senior civil service and was until 2006 Deputy Director for Collection & Analysis at the French External Intelligence Agency (Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure), where he spent most of the last decade. Previously, Mr Hayez has held several positions in the French ministries of defense and foreign affairs.

In addition to his present duties, Mr Hayez started teaching a Master’s seminar on "the intelligence policies in western democracies" at Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) in 2007. He is now coordinating PSIA’s Intelligence Concentration and has given regular lectures on intelligence and security matters in France and other European countries. Together with Jean-Claude Cousseran, he teaches since 2011 the course “Renseigner les démocraties, renseigner en démocratie”.

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