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Michael Hayden to Keynote FPRI’s Annual Dinner and Receive 10th Annual Benjamin Franklin Award
The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is proud to announce that Gen. (Ret.) Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA and NSA, will receive the 10th Annual Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service at the organization’s 2014 Annual Dinner. General Hayden will also deliver the keynote address at the event, which will be held in Philadelphia on Wednesday, November 19, 2014.
General Hayden has devoted his life to public service, serving as Director of the CIA (2006-09), Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (2005-06), and Director of the NSA (1999-2005). He retired from the US Air Force as a four-star general in 2008 after nearly 39 years of active-duty military service, serving in various capacities including Commander of the Air Intelligence Agency and Director of the Joint Command and Control Warfare Center. Currently, he is a Principal of the Chertoff Group and Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Mason University. He appears regularly on national news media to comment on a range of national security and intelligence issues.
Recent recipients of the Benjamin Franklin Award include Henry A. Kissinger, Gen. James Mattis, Robert D. Kaplan, Walter Russell Mead, and the late Fouad Ajami.
FPRI’s 2014 Annual Dinner will be held on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at the Westin Hotel, Philadelphia. Dinner Sponsors will be announced at a later date. For information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Eli Gilman at 215-732-3774, ext. 103 or email egilman@fpri.org.
Seats and tables are available to FPRI Partners. To become a Partner of FPRI, click here.