P.W. Singer, PhD, senior fellow and director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution, will speak at Canisius on Wednesday, September 24 at 7 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge of the Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center. Singer’s lecture, entitled “Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know,” is free and open to the public. The event is presented by The William H. Fitzpatrick Chair of Political Science Lecture Series and is part of the Constitution Day observance by Canisius College.
Singer is considered one the world’s leading experts on changes in 21st century warfare. He was named by President Obama to the U.S. Military’s Transformation Advisory Group. Singer is the youngest scholar named senior fellow in the Brookings’ 95-year history. CNN named him to its “New Guard” List of the Next Generation of Newsmakers, he was included in the Turner Broadcasting series “26 People to Save the World,” as well as Defense Magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers List, of the people whose ideas most influenced the world that year. Prior to his current post, Singer was the founding director of the Project on U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World in the Saban Center at Brookings.
Singer is the author of four books, including Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (Cornell University Press); Children at War (Pantheon) and Wired for War (Pantheon). His most recent book, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2014), answers the key questions we all face in the cyber age.
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