Ret. Adm. Mike Mullen

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (2007-11)

Carol Ann Walker International Lectureship

Monday, November 11, 2024, 11 a.m.
McCrary Theatre, Center for the Arts

Admiral Mike Mullen, USN (Ret.), is president of MGM Consulting, which provides counsel to global clients on issues related to geopolitical developments, national security interests and strategic leadership. He served as the 28th Chief of Naval Operations from 2005 to 2007 and as the 17th Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama from 2007 to 2011. He led the military during a critical time of change and transition.

Mullen advanced the rapid fielding of innovative technologies, championed emerging and enduring global partnerships, and promoted new methods for countering terrorism. He spearheaded the elimination of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, ushering in for the first time in U.S. military history the open service of gay and lesbian people.

Mullen is a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a Distinguished Graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School, a Distinguished Alumni of Harvard Business School and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and served as a trustee at Caltech. Since his retirement from the United States Navy in 2011 after 43 years of honorable service, Mullen joined the corporate boards of General Motors from 2013 to 2018 and Sprint from 2013 to 2019. He continues to serve on numerous boards to include Bloomberg Philanthropies, Naval Academy Foundation, Naval Postgraduate School Foundation, Harvard Business School and a wide array of nonprofit organizations dedicated to improving the growth, development, recovery and transition of military veterans and their families.

Additionally, he taught National Security Decision-Making and Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University from 2012 to 2018 and continues to teach advanced ethics and leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Tickets are free of charge and available August 27 at ElonTickets.com.