Event: National Security Seminar Series – Nov. 3

November 3, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – CNA Senior Fellow, Dov S. Zakheim, Ph.D. will discuss "Funding Government Oversight and Management in Contingencies." Dr. Zakheim will draw on his experience a member of the independent, bipartisan legislative Commission on Wartime Contracting established to study wartime contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. (The Commission. presented its final report to Congress in September 2011. )

Dr. Zakheim was Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and CFO for the Department of Defense from 2001 to 2004 serving as principal advisor on financial and budgetary matters. From 2002 to 2004 he was DOD's coordinator of civilian programs in Afghanistan. From 2004 to 2010, he was Senior Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton where he was a leader of the firm's defense practice. Dov Zakheim holds doctorates in economics and politics from St Antony's College, Oxford.