Name: Clarity in Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the CIA with Marc Polymeropoulos
Start: 2025-09-18T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-09-18T19:00:00-08:00
Location: BP Energy Center

Clarity in Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the CIA with Marc Polymeropoulos

Join us for an inside look at high-stakes decision-making with former CIA Senior Intelligence Service officer Marc Polymeropoulos. Drawing on 26 years of experience in the field—including leading clandestine operations across Europe the Middle East and South Asia—Polymeropoulos shares powerful leadership lessons forged in crisis. Through real-world stories from the front lines of counterterrorism and espionage this program offers insights on resilience trust and leading through uncertainty.
About the speaker
Marc Polymeropoulos is a nonresident senior fellow in the Forward Defense practice of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a NBC national security analyst.

Polymeropoulos worked for twenty-six years at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) before retiring in July 2019 at the Senior Intelligence Service level. He was one of the CIA’s most highly decorated operations officers serving in multiple field and headquarters assignments for the US government. Polymeropoulos received the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal the Distinguished Intelligence Medal the Intelligence Commendation Medal and the Intelligence Medal of Merit. He specialized in counterterrorism the Middle East and South Asia spending extensive time in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just prior to his retirement Polymeropoulos served at CIA headquarters and was in charge of the CIA’s clandestine operations in Europe and Eurasia.
Polymeropoulos frequently comments on international events in the US media. He is a cohost of the UK-based “The Crisis Room Podcast” which hit number one on the UK charts soon after its debut early this summer. Polymeropoulos’s book “Clarity in Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the CIA” was published by Harper Collins in June 2021.
event details
Check-in will begin at 5:30 PM with seating available on a first-come first-serve basis. The program will begin at 6:00 PM.
Those with online reservations do not need to present ticket confirmation at the door we will have all confirmed attendees on a list at check-in.
Online registration closes at 6:00 PM on September 17. Tickets will be available at the door on a first come first served basis.
Please note this program is intended for a primarily adult audience.