Join the World Affairs Council of Charlotte for our Annual Meeting and Summer Party! We will enjoy dinner and a presentation by Tate Nurkin, U.S. intelligence and defense advisor and founder of OTH Intelligence Group. He will share his thoughts on China, Innovation and the Future of US-China Defense Competition.

Date:
Wednesday, June 13
Location:
Wayne and Judy Cooper’s Home
*Address will be provided upon confirmation of reservations
Dinner  & Networking: 
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Presentation &  Discussion
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Cost:
$20 WACC Member Rate
$30 Non-Member rate
$12 WACC student/educator/TMS member
You must be an individual WACC educator/student/TMS member to qualify for the $12 rate

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  • To join the wait list, please call 704-687-7762 or email info@worldaffairscharlotte.org

World Affairs Council of Charlotte
UNC Charlotte – CHHS 227
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223

All reservation cancellations must be completed at least 3 business days prior to an event for a full refund. If you have dietary restrictions, please let us know in advance so that we can make the appropriate accommodations.

Biography
Tate Nurkin is the founder and CEO of OTH Intelligence Group LLC, a company established in March 2018 to provide research, analysis and advisory services on geopolitical, security and defense issues to U.S. and allied defense and intelligence community organizations, the global defense industry, and nondefense private sector industry.

Before establishing OTH Intelligence Group, Mr. Nurkin spent 12 years with the defense analysis and publishing firm Jane’s by IHS Markit. While at Jane’s, he ran the national security consulting group and for the last four years served as the head of Jane’s Strategic Assessments and Future Studies Center, an internal think tank focused on the implications of emerging technology for defense and security interests. From 2012 until his departure in 2018, Mr. Nurkin was a member of the Jane’s leadership team, which was responsible for overall Jane’s business operations. He currently serves as a Senior Associate for Jane’s.

Substantively, Mr. Nurkin’s research and analysis is focused on China’s military modernization and defense innovation capacity; the global defense industry; and the future of defense technology and military capabilities. He also has 20 years’ experience in the design and delivery of alternative futures analysis methods, such as scenario planning, wargaming and red teaming in support of both private sector industry and the U.S. and allied defense and intelligence communities. He is a frequent speaker and author on global defense and security issues, including recent speaking appearances at the New America Foundation’s Future of War Conference in Washington, DC (April 2018), the Unmanned Systems Exhibition (UMEX) conference in Abu Dhabi (February 2018), and providing testimony to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (February of 2018). His analysis is also frequently published in Jane’s and third party publications. In May 2018, the U.S.- China Economic and Security Review Commission published his 250-page report entitled China’s Advanced Weapons Systems.

In September of 2014, Mr. Nurkin began a two-year term on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Nuclear Security and led the Council’s Nuclear Futures exercise work-stream. In 2016, he joined the World Economic Forum’s Future Council on International Security, which is focused on assessing how technology is shaping the future of global defense and security environments.

Mr. Nurkin joined Jane’s Information Group (Jane’s) in March of 2006 and subsequently joined IHS through its acquisition of Jane’s in the summer of 2007 and IHS Markit through merger in June 2016. Prior to 2006, he worked for the Modeling, Simulation, Wargaming and Analysis Group of Booz Allen Hamilton; the Strategic Assessment Center of Science Application International Corporation and Joint Management Services, a small firm based in Atlanta, GA that assesses defense technology competitions. He holds a Masters of Science in International Affairs from the Sam Nunn School of international affairs at Georgia Tech (1999) and a Bachelors of Arts in history and political science from Duke University (1994).