Lord Jonathan Evans, a former Director General of the British Security Service MI5, will deliver this year’s Foundation Day Lecture.
Entitled Security in a Global World his lecture will take place at 6.30pm in Woolf College Lecture Theatre (Canterbury campus) on 19 November. It is free and open to all.
Lord Evans of Weardale KCB DL will discuss the ways in which national security has changed from a generation ago when it was delivered on a single-country basis, to now being grounded in international collaboration, technological innovation and a robust framework of legal and political accountability.
Lord Evans was Director General of MI5 from 2007 to 2013 and as such was one of the British government’s principal advisors on national security threats including terrorism, cyber security and espionage and a member of the Prime Minister’s National Security Council. He also led MI5’s work to ensure the security of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.
The University’s Foundation Day Lecture celebrates it many achievements since receiving its Royal Charter in 1965.
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