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Incline Village, NV – Keith Hansen will be joining SNC’s International Studies program as a Visiting Professor for the fall 2010 semester, announced Rick Normington, Chair of the Business Department. He will be teaching a course on Global Issues and another on U.S. National Security Issues, filling in for International Studies Program Chair Mary Lewellen and husband (and adjunct professor) Ted Morse, who are both taking leaves of absence to work on various special assignments in Africa and Asia for the U.S. State Department.

Hansen, a former National Intelligence Council official, was deeply involved in negotiations on the disarmament of nuclear weapons, as well as on a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing. He served for over three decades with the government in both military and civilian assignments. He participated on various strategic arms control delegations as an expert on strategic nuclear force issues. In Washington he served in various positions, including as the National Intelligence Officer for Strategic Programs and Nuclear Proliferation, where he supported the treaty ratification and counter-proliferation efforts of various administrations through the intelligence community’s efforts to produce national estimates on nuclear and proliferation issues. Hansen, now retired from 35 years of government service, is a consulting professor of international relations at Stanford University. He and his wife live in Incline Village but volunteer with various organizations in the United States and overseas. He is the author of The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider’s Perspective (Stanford University Press, 2006); coauthor of Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History (University of Washington Press, 2007); and coauthor of Preventing Catastrophe: The Use and Misuse of Intelligence in Efforts to Halt the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (Stanford University Press, 2009).

Professor Hansen has a BA in History from Stanford University; an MA in International Affairs/Soviet Studies from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; an MA in Russian History from Stanford University; and an MS in Management from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business—Sloan Program.

Provost and Executive Vice President Dr. Lynn Gillette stated, “We are delighted to welcome Professor Hansen to our faculty. He is an accomplished educator who brings a wealth of experience into the classroom. He joins an outstanding faculty that is dedicated to student learning.” Added Normington, “Keith has already scheduled a guest lecture by former Deputy National Security Advisor Ty Cobb (senior).”
 

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