Contact: Sammy McDavid
The former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency will discuss future world trends during a Nov. 30 universities-sponsored interactive program in Jackson and Starkville.
"Emerging Global Trends and Conditions, 2000-2025: The Potential for Change in Conflict" will be the topic of Patrick Hughes during a two-hour public presentation scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. Because of limited space at all locations, seating accommodations will be on a first-come basis.
The visit by Hughes, a retired United States Army lieutenant general, is being co-sponsored by the International Programs Office at Jackson State and Mississippi State's Janos Radvanyi Chair for International Security and Strategic Studies.
As Hughes speaks in the Community College Room of the Mississippi Education and Research Center at 3825 Ridgewood Rd. in Jackson, he will appear via a teleconference hookup in Room 114 of JSU's J.H. Jackson School of Education Building and 138B McCool Hall at MSU.
A question-and-answer session involving all three locations will conclude the program.
Hughes currently is president of PMH Enterprises LLC, a private consulting firm in the Washington, D.C., area specializing in intelligence, security and international relations. He retired last year after more than three decades of active military service, the last three-and-a-half years as head of the Department of Defense's primary intelligence gathering arm.
He is a graduate of Montana State and Central Michigan universities.
For more information, telephone Ally Mack of JSU at (601) 979-2121 or Rebecca Kirkland of MSU at (662) 325-8406.