Woodward Keynotes at BUA’S 8th Annual Model UN
As part of the Pardee School’s outreach to young students with an interest in international relations, John D. Woodward, Jr., Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, served as the keynote speaker at the Boston University Academy’s (BUA’s) 8th annual Model United Nations Conference held on the BU campus on February 1-2, 2020.
Woodward opened the conference with a presentation on the role of intelligence in a democratic society. Ten schools and 240 middle schoolers from the New England region participated as delegates. The student-run conference came after months of preparation by BUA students, who are coached by Pardee School alumna Raina Kadavil and BUA chemistry teacher Victoria Perrone.
Woodward is a Professor of the Practice at the BU Pardee School and a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who, during his twenty-year CIA career, served as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service and as a technical intelligence officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, with assignments in Washington D.C., East Asia, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. He also served as the Director of the U.S. Department of Defense Biometrics Management Office from 2003-2005.