20th Anniversary-Speaker Harold Brown
Keynote Dinner
Friday, May 2 at 6:00 p.m.
UCSD Faculty Club
Join Chancellor Marye Anne Fox to hear renowned keynote speaker Harold Brown.
About our Speaker
Dr. Harold Brown served as the U.S. Secretary of Defense in the Carter administration (1977-1981), having previously served in the Pentagon as director of defense research and engineering and Secretary of the Air Force. He also was the president of the California Institute of Technology and chairman of the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (1984-1992). Presently he is a partner in Warburg, Pincus, and Co. and counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1992-). He is also a trustee of the California Institute of Technology, RAND, and the Trilateral Commission (North America).
Dr. Brown was director of the Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, University of California (1952-1961). He was a member of the Polaris Steering Committee (1956-1958), a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (1956-1961)and also consultant to and then member of the President's Science Advisory Committee (1958-1961). He was senior science adviser at the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests (1958-1959) and a delegate to the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks in Helsinki, Vienna, and Geneva (1969-1977).
He graduated from Columbia University with an A.B. degree in 1945, A.M. degree in 1946, and Ph.D. in physics in 1949. He has received 12 honorary degrees. Among his many honors, Dr. Brown was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981 and the Fermi Award in 1993. He is the author of Thinking About National Security: Defense and Foreign Policy in a Dangerous World (1983) and editor of The Strategic Defense Initiative: Shield or Snare? (1987).
