SIA Faculty Coffee Chat: Hon. Mary Beth Long
Date & Time: October 12, 2021 | 08:45 PM – July 16, 2024 | 07:46 AM
Location: 232 Katz
Join us on Tuesday, October 12 for an SIA Faculty Coffee Chat—featuring the Honorable Mary Beth Long.
Long is an SIA professor of practice with a distinguished career in the public and private sector, including over 17 years of government service in the intelligence and defense fields. As Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 2007 to 2009, Long served as the first woman ever confirmed to a four-star equivalent position by the U.S. Senate. She also was the first woman to chair NATO’s High Level Group (HLG), the organization’s senior-most nuclear and missile defense policy-making body. To those credentials, Long adds more than a decade of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) clandestine operational experience abroad on terrorism and other security issues.
A 1985 honors graduate of the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, Long received the Penn State Distinguished Alumni Award in 2017, the University’s highest honor presented to its alumni. She is a member of the SIA Board of Advisors and recently made a donation to create a student emergency fund to help SIA students in financial need by offsetting expenses such as rent, utilities, food, life-saving medications, and other necessities.