On May 21,2014, members of the Washington, DC, Dartmouth community gathered at The City Tavern Club to honor Paul Pillar. Dr. Pillar graduated from Dartmouth summa cum laude in Government in 1969 and subsequently earned MA and PhD degrees from Princeton. He served as a U.S. Army officer in Vietnam and then served for 28 years in senior CIA and National Intelligence Council positions, including National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia as well as Deputy Director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center.

Known for his expertise, objective analysis, courage and integrity, Dr. Pillar may be best known as the author of a prescient national intelligence assessment warning of potential negative consequences resulting from the U.S. intervention in Iraq.

After leaving Government service in 2005 Dr. Pillar served for seven years as a professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies, where he is now a nonresident Fellow.

Also currently a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Dr. Pillar has authored several books, including "Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy" (2001) and "Intelligence and U.S Foreign Policy" (2011), along with numerous journal articles on a wide range of intelligence and foreign policy issues.