About this episode
Mathew Burrows, program lead of the Stimson Center’s Strategic Foresight Hub, joins us to discuss his career in the CIA and the National Intelligence Council, where he was the lead author of Global Trends, a non-classified report released every four years as an aid to incoming administrations. We also discuss transformative global events of recent decades, the mechanics of predicting trends, and what policymakers often get wrong in confronting the world.
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*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.
Time Stamps:
- 00:1:36 Mathew Burrows’ Early Biography
- 00:5:03 A Job at the CIA
- 00:14:12 The Collapse of the Communist Bloc
- 00:16:41 Move to the National Intelligence Council
- 00:22:20 9/11 and the Intelligence Community
- 00:27:21 Snowden Saga
- 00:28:54 Global Trends
- 00:31:41 China Prescience
- 00:39:16 Trump Admin. & Death of Global Trends
- 00:48:09 Enter the Policymakers
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