Alexander Stubb (President of Finland)<\/u><\/p>\n
President Alexander Stubb\u00a0is the thirteenth president of Finland. He was elected in February and sworn in on 1 March 2024. He earned his BA at Furman University (\u201993), MA at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, and his PhD from the London School of Economics. He served as director of the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where he also taught courses in international relations. President Stubb was elected to the\u00a0European Parliament\u00a0in\u00a02004\u00a0and was appointed\u00a0Finland\u2019s Minister for Foreign Affairs\u00a0in 2008, serving three years. In\u00a02011,\u00a0he was elected to the\u00a0Parliament of Finland\u00a0and was later appointed Minister for European Affairs and Trade (2011-2014). He served as\u00a0the prime minister of Finland\u00a0(2014-2015) and Minister of Finance (2015-2016) before being appointed vice president of the European Investment Bank. President Stubb has authored several books, including Negotiating Flexibility in the European Union<\/em> (2002), The European Union<\/em> (with Brent Nelsen, 2014), and Alex <\/em>(2017). His most recent book is The Triangle of Power: Rebalancing the New World Order<\/em> (2026).<\/p>\n General Josh Rudd (NSA)<\/u><\/p>\n General Joshua M. Rudd is Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, Director of the National Security Agency, and Chief of Central Security Service. He was previously the Deputy Commander for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, where he also served as the Chief of Staff and Commander of Special Operations Command Pacific. He earned his BA (Political Science) from Furman University (\u201993) and a commission through the Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps (ROTC) program. He also holds a master\u2019s degree in Strategy and National Security from the Naval War College. Entering active duty as a Quartermaster Officer, he completed Special Forces Assessment and Selection in 1996. As a Special Forces Officer, he has commanded at every echelon from Operational Detachment Alpha to Group. General Rudd has deployed numerous times in support of multiple combat operations, including Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn, and Operation Inherent Resolve. General Rudd\u2019s additional professional education includes U.S. Army War College, Fellowship at Duke University, Naval Command and Staff College, Infantry Officer Advanced Course, and Quartermaster Officer Basic Course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alexander Stubb (President of Finland) President Alexander Stubb\u00a0is the thirteenth president of Finland. He was elected in February and sworn in on 1 March 2024. He earned his BA at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":2135,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[12],"class_list":["post-2134","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-lecture","cat_lecture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2134\/revisions\/2137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}