Ashton Carter, United States Secretary of Defense

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The Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and the Oxford Union, hosted a visit by Ashton Carter, the US Secretary of Defence.

Secretary Carter, who was a Rhodes Scholar and received his DPhil from Oxford in theoretical physics in 1979, delivered a speech on ‘The US-UK security relationship and the future of the principled international order.’

Secretary Carter was introduced by Sir Lawrence Freedman, the UK’s pre-eminent security expert and a visiting professor at the Blavatnik School of Government.