Global InformationMIT Seminar XXI information
| MIT Seminar XXI | |
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77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 United States | |
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| Type | Seminar |
| Established | 1986 |
| Founder | Suzanne Berger, Jake W. Stewart, and Mitzi Wertheim |
| Director | Kelly Greenhill |
| Grades | Postgraduate |
| Website | semxxi |
MIT Seminar XXI is an educational program for national security professionals run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Originally for military leaders when begun in 1986, leaders from various government, non-government, and private organizations attend the seminar. The seminar runs annually from September to April in the national capital region. MIT president Susan Hockfield called it a "legendary program".[1]
As of 2020, 2,530 fellows had graduated from the program. Graduates have served in top positions in the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of State and other government, non-government, and private organizations. These include ambassadors, agency directors, combatant commanders, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and university president. Faculty has included Condoleezza Rice, Caspar Weinberger, Kathleen Hicks, Michèle Flournoy, Bernard Lewis, Francis Fukuyama, and Peter Singer, among others. Faculty instructors come from top universities in the United States such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, Cornell, and Columbia as well as internationally while also including think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and private organizations.
- ^ Hockfield 2010.