DATE: 4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 7

EVENT: Sen. Chuck Hagel will deliver the Citigroup Foundation Lecture, which is free and open to the public.

Hagel is a distinguished professor at Georgetown University and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is chairman of the Atlantic Council and a member of the Secretary of Defense’s Defense Policy Board. He serves on the advisory boards of Deutsche Bank Americas and Corsair Capital; is a director of Wolfensohn and Co.; senior adviser to McCarthy Capital Corp; and a member of Pfizer’s Emerging Markets and European Advisory Boards.

Hagel served two terms in the United States Senate (1997-2009) representing Nebraska. Hagel was a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; and Intelligence Committees. He chaired the Foreign Relations International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion Subcommittee and the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance.

He authored the recently published “America: Our Next Chapter,” an examination of the current state of the nation that provides proposals for the challenges of the 21st century.

Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, Hagel was president of McCarthy & Co., an investment-banking firm in Omaha, Nebraska. In the mid-1980s, Hagel co-founded VANGUARD Cellular Systems, Inc., a publicly traded corporation. He is a Vietnam combat veteran and former deputy administrator of the Veterans Administration. Hagel is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

The Citigroup Foundation Lecture series brings prominent policymakers from the national and international arenas to the Ford School each year to engage students and faculty in dialogue and to give a public address.

PLACE: Michigan Union Ballroom, 530 S. State Street.

SPONSORS: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and International Policy Center.

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