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About the Advisory Board Members

Loch K. Johnson
A Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia, Dr. Johnson was instrumental in founding the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He has served on the Senate and House committees on intelligence and on foreign affairs and has been a consultant to the National Security Council, the U.S. State Department, and the Senate Subcommittee on Separation of Powers.

A national authority on intelligence gathering, he has been calling for reform in the nation's intelligence-gathering services for years. He has conducted numerous interviews with intelligence professionals and other government officials, sifting through declassified documents and serving as a White House staff aide with responsibilities for intelligence oversight. He is the author of three books, A Season of Inquiry, the winner of the 1986 Certificate of Distinction of the National Intelligence Study Center, America As a World Power (1991), and Secret Agencies (1996).

Paul Wilkinson
Professor of International Relations and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St Andrews, Dr. Wilkinson is co-editor of the academic journal Terrorism and Political Violence. He served as Adviser to Lord Lloyd of Berwick's Inquiry into Legislation Against Terrorism, and authored volume two, the "Research Report for the Inquiry" (1996).

Eliot A. Cohen
The Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies and the Director of the Strategic Studies Program in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Cohen has also taught at Harvard University and the Naval War College, and has served on the Policy Planning Staff in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He also directed the Gulf War Air Power Survey for the U.S. Air Force and is currently a member of the Defense Policy Board as well as other advisory committees. He earned both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate at Harvard.

Anthony Cordesman
Currently the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and co-director of its Middle East Program, Dr. Cordesman is also a military analyst for ABC News and a Professor of National Security Studies at Georgetown. He has held senior positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the State Department, the Department of Energy, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. He has also served in numerous overseas posts. He was a member of the U.S. Delegation to NATO, and a Director in the NATO International Staff—working on Middle Eastern security issues. He has been assigned to posts in Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, Turkey, and West Germany. He has acted as an advisor to the Commander in Chief of U.S. Forces in Europe, and has traveled extensively in the Gulf and North Africa.

Thérèse Delpech
Dr. Delpech has been the director for strategic studies at the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Paris since 1997, and is also a member of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission and an advisor to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Between 1995 and 1997 she was an advisor for politico-military affairs to the French Prime Minister and earlier served as the deputy director for defense and strategic affairs (nonproliferation) at CEA.

Sir Michael Howard
Dr. Howard's knowledge of warfare has been gained through experience and study. He served in Churchill's Personal Security Detail before earning a Military Cross at Salerno. After the war, he taught at King's College London and was instrumental in creating both the Department of War Studies and the Centre for Military Archives at the College. In 1964, he became the College's, and the country's, first Professor of War Studies. In 1970, he moved to Oxford where he became the Chichele Professor of the History of War. He concluded his teaching career at Yale in 1993, as the first Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History. Knighted in 1986, he is today president emeritus of the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS)—of which he was a joint founder—a fellow of the British Academy, and a foreign corresponding member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Lieutenant General Claudia J. Kennedy, USA (Ret.)
General Kennedy was the first woman to reach three-star rank in the Army when Congress confirmed her appointment as Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence. In addition to serving in a variety command and staff positions throughout her career as an intelligence officer, she is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. LTG Kennedy was awarded the Living Legacy Patriot Award in 1998 by the Women's International Center. Since retiring in 2000 she has lectured widely and appeared on television as a military consultant for CNN and NBC and as a guest on Larry King Live and Good Morning America. Currently LTG Kennedy chairs First Star, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children.

Paul Kennedy
The J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and director of International Security Studies at Yale University, Dr. Kennedy is internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political, economic, and strategic issues. He is a former Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn. He is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and writes for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and many foreign-language newspapers and magazines.

Robert J. O'Neill
Among the leading international scholars on strategic studies, Dr. O'Neill served in the Australian Army from 1955 to 1968 and began his studies in international relations as a Rhodes Scholar. He was named a Senior Fellow in International Relations in the Research School of Pacific Studies at Australian National University in 1969 and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre in 1971. Dr. O'Neill was the first person from outside Europe to be named Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London in 1982. He then succeeded Michael Howard as the Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford in 1987. He was the founding Director of the All Souls Foreign Policy Studies Programme and Director of Graduate Studies in the Modern History Faculty. He was also a member of the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons and the Tokyo Forum on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.

Shibley Telhami
Dr. Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and a non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. In addition, Dr. Telhami has been an advisor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and a member of the U.S. delegation to the Trilateral U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian Anti-Incitement Committee and the U.S. Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the boards of Human Rights Watch, Seeds of Peace, Education for Employment Foundation, and Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam. He has also served on the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace and is a recipient of the Distinguished International Service Award presented by the University of Maryland.

Jusuf Wanandi
Dr. Wanandi is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta, which he co-founded. He is also Chairman of the Indonesian National Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council and Co-Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. In addition, he is President Director of the Jakarta Post (a national English-language daily) as well as Board Chairman of the Graduate School of Management Prasetiya Mulya and Chairman of the Foundation of Panca Bhakti University in Pontianak. A frequent contributor to the domestic and international press, he has written or edited more than a dozen books including Europe and the Asia Pacific, Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region, and Asia and the Major Powers.

Fareed Zakaria
Editor of Newsweek International since 2001, Dr. Zakaria oversees Newsweek's eight editions throughout Asia, Latin America, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. His column—on subjects ranging from terrorism, national security and America's role in the world, to the global economy and the rise of China—appears in Newsweek (USA), Newsweek International, and, often, The Washington. Indian-born and trained as an academic at Yale and Harvard, Zakaria, at age 28, became the youngest managing editor in the history of Foreign Affairs. Before joining Foreign Affairs, he ran the "Project on the Changing Security Environment" at Harvard University, where he also taught international politics and economics. Zakaria has written for such publications as The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal. He has appeared on a variety of programs, including Charlie Rose, BBC World News, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Meet the Press.