Join the World Affairs Council of Charlotte for an exclusive private dinner on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 with Chris Inglis, former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency and the first National Cyber Director of the United States.

As former Deputy Director of the NSA and the nation’s first National Cyber Director, Inglis spent decades at the center of U.S. intelligence and cyber defense advising senior government officials, overseeing national security operations, and helping build the policy frameworks that protect American infrastructure in an increasingly dangerous digital world.

Seating is limited to 24.

This evening promises candid conversation on the evolving cyber threat landscape, the role of government and private sector in national defense, and what’s keeping America’s top security experts up at night.

 

 

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Program Information: 

Date: Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
Check-In & Networking: 6:00 – 6:30 PM
Dinner & Discussion: 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Location: TBA
Cost: $180 (WACC Member Rate) | $200 (Non-Member Rate) — limited to 24 people
*Includes pre-dinner wine, salad, entrée, dessert, wine during dinner, and coffee service

 

 

 

Biography: 

Mr. Inglis serves on the boards of AIG, MITRE, Huntington Bancshares, and Andesite; as a managing director at Paladin Capital and an advisor to Ballistic Ventures.

Mr. Inglis was the first Senate-confirmed U.S. National Cyber Director from 2021-23, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer from 2006-14, and, at various times across the period 1982-2025, a member of the departments of Computer/Cyber Science, and Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Military, Naval Academy, and Air Force Academies. His public service includes 28 years of full-time service at the NSA, and post-NSA stints on various federal and private sector advisory panels to include the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission (2019-2020), which recommended a range of strategic initiatives that underpin current U.S. cyber strategy, to include the creation of a Senate confirmed U.S. National Cyber Director.

Mr. Inglis holds graduate degrees from Columbia, Johns Hopkins and George Washington Universities, and an honorary doctorate from the U.S. National Intelligence University. In more than 30 years of active and reserve military service, Mr. Inglis was rated as a U.S. Air Force command pilot and retired with the rank of Brigadier General.