[3] He is currently a member of the Advisory Board at the Oxford Analytica,[4] Treverton graduated summa cum laude with an A.B.
from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1972 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Managing the politics and economics of alliance: the balance of payments and American forces in Germany.
"[6][7] Treverton was one of the 51 former U.S. intelligence officials who signed the October 19, 2020, letter that said the Hunter Biden laptop story "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.
"[8] It was in fact revealed the laptop contained no evidence of Russian disinformation, and portions of its contents have been verified as authentic.
[9] In 2021, Treverton was implicated in a dispute with Oxford University Press and a former graduate student regarding his 2015 book National Intelligence and Science: Beyond the Great Divide in Analysis and Policy (Oxford University Press) found he had plagiarized a substantial portion of a chapter in his book from white papers by the graduate student, who was eventually named a co-author of the chapter.