Judy Biggert
Judy Biggert is US Representative of Illinois' 13th District. A Republican, she was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1998 after serving for six years in the Illinois House. She serves on the Banking, Government Reform and Science Committees which consider such issues as international monetary policy, government management, information technology, and energy and the environment. She is a strong campaigner and well-respected legislator who has won both election and re-election by lopsided margins.
Mark Malloch Brown
Mark Malloch Brown is the Administrator of the United Nations Development Program. Before joining the UNDP in July 1999, he served at the World Bank, first as Director for External Affairs and then as Vice President for External and UN Affairs. Previously, he was an international partner for the Sawyer-Miller Group. He has worked as a political correspondent with the Economist magazine and also for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, initially stationed in Thailand and later in Geneva as Deputy Chief of the Emergency Unit.
Frank C. Carlucci
Frank C. Carlucci is Chairman of the Carlyle Group. He served as Secretary of Defense,
following his service as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs under President
Reagan. Prior to these positions, Mr. Carlucci was Chief Executive Officer of Sears World
Trade. His distinguished career has included serving as Ambassador to Portugal and Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence. He was a leading participant in the Stimson Center's Advocacy
for US Interests Abroad project which produced the 1999 report
Dick Clark
Dick Clark served as US Senator from Iowa from 1972 to 1979. He served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Agriculture Committee , the Rules Committee and the Democratic Steering Committee. After leaving the Senate, he served as US Ambassador for Refugee Affairs. He is now Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies in Washington, DC.
Robert L. Gallucci
Robert L. Gallucci is Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Before joining Georgetown in 1996, he served for 21 years in a distinguished government career in which his last assignment was Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs. In March, l998, he was asked by the State Department to serve as special envoy to deal with the threat posed by the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction and, in that capacity, has traveled a number of times to the Korean peninsula.
Richard N. Gardner
Richard N. Gardner is Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia University and is Of Counsel with Morgan Lewis, a global law firm. He served as US Ambassador to Spain between 1993 and 1997 and to Italy between 1977 and 1981. Amb. Gardner currently is a member of the US delegation to the UN General Assembly. He is a well known author of numerous books and articles, most recently "The One Percent Solution: Shirking the Cost of World Leadership," which appeared in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs magazine.
Chuck Hagel
Chuck Hagel is United States Senator from Nebraska. A Republican, he serves on four Senate committees: Foreign Relations; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; and the Special Committee on Aging. On Foreign Relations, he is chairman of the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export, and Trade Promotion. His wide-ranging work on international issues such as the IMF quota increase and NATO enlargement have won him a reputation as an influential voice in foreign affairs.
H. Allen Holmes
H. Allen Holmes brings an extensive background in both diplomacy and political-military affairs to the panel. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, as well as Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs. His distinguished foreign service career of over 30 years also includes an assignment as Ambassador to Portugal from 1982-l985.
Craig Johnstone
Craig Johnstone is senior Vice President for International, Economic and National Security Affairs at the US Chamber of Commerce. He worked for years as the Director of Resources, Plans and Policy at the State Department where he designed the Department's strategic plan and continuously strived to improve Department management. In earlier stints, he served as Assistant Secretary for Latin America as well as ambassador to Algeria. His private sector experience includes Vice President for International Operations of the Cabot Corporation of Boston.
Lewis B. Kaden
Lewis B. Kaden is a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell. His practice includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and advocacy before the Supreme Court. Before joining Davis Polk, he was a professor at the Columbia Law School and Director of the Center on Law and Economic Studies.. Most recently, he chaired the Overseas Presence Advisory Commission that examined the strengths and weaknesses of US embassies and their operations.
Jim Kolbe
Jim Kolbe is US Representative of Arizona's 5th District. A Republican, he has served eight consecutive terms in the House of Representatives. He serves on the Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary where he works on issues that have both international significance and particular meaning to his district, including US border security, immigration, drug enforcement, and trade. He has garnered bi-partisan respect for his lead role in US-Mexican interparliamentary groups and on the task force on China policy.
Princeton Lyman
Princeton Lyman is Executive Director of the Global Interdependence Initiative, a major project of The Aspen Institute in Washington, DC. He retired from the Foreign Service after a distinguished career in government including assignments as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, US Ambassador to South Africa, US Ambassador to Nigeria, Director of the Department's Refugee Programs Bureau, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.
Phyllis Oakley
Phyllis Oakley retired from the Foreign Service last year after 42 years as an American diplomat. She became a familiar face and voice to the press and the American people when, serving in the Department's spokesmen's office from 1986 to 1989, she often took over the podium and fielded questions on issues ranging from Iran-contra to relations with the Soviet Union. She has served as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research and Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration. She joined the Institute's Board of Directors in 1999.
Yolonda Richardson
Yolonda Richardson is senior vice president of Africare, a private voluntary organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for rural communities in Africa. She oversees operations in the headquarters office and in the organization's field offices in 27 countries. She is responsible for supervising all aspects of program design, implementation, and evaluation of more than 150 development projects throughout Africa. Prior to joining Africare earlier this year, Ms. Richardson worked as a program officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Stapleton Roy
Stapleton Roy is Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research. He entered the Foreign Service in 1956 and has served in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taipei, Moscow, Beijing, and Thailand. He has served as US Ambassador to Singapore, to the People's Republic of China and, most recently, to the Republic of Indonesia. His wide experience and clear focus on US interests throughout a number of difficult assignments and under a number of different administrations have won him a reputation as one of the nation's top diplomats.
LTG James Terry Scott
LTG James Terry Scott is Director of the National Security Program and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His military experience includes command of tactical units at all levels, from platoon through division, with his last assignment at Fort Bragg as Commanding General of US Army Special Operations. He has served in six foreign countries and participated in five combat tours, three of which were in Vietnam.