UANI Leadership Bios
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www.UnitedAgainstNuclearIran.com LEADERSHIP UANI co-founders and former chairmen Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross, as well as Advisory Board member Gary Samore, have been appointed to serve in key positions in the Obama Administration. We wish them all the best and thank them for their valuable contributions to the UANI organization. R. James Woolsey – Advisory Board Co-Chair R. James Woolsey is a Venture Partner with VantagePoint Venture Partners of San Bruno, California. Mr. Woolsey also currently: is the Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; chairs the Strategic Advisory Group of the Washington, D.C. private equity fund, Paladin Capital Group; is a Senior Executive Advisor to the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton; and is Of Counsel to the Washington, D.C. office of the Boston-based law firm, Goodwin Procter. In the above capacities he specializes in a range of alternative energy and security issues. Mr. Woolsey previously served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations, most recently (1993-95) as Director of Central Intelligence. From July 2002 to March 2008 Mr. Woolsey was a Vice President and officer of Booz Allen Hamilton. He was also previously a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC, now Goodwin Procter, where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil litigation, arbitration, and mediation. During his 12 years of government service, in addition to heading the CIA and the Intelligence Community, Mr. Woolsey was: Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989–1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977–1979; and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970–1973. He was also appointed by the President to serve on a part-time basis in Geneva, Switzerland, 1983–1986, as Delegate at Large to the U.S.–Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST). As an officer in the U.S. Army, he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969–1970. Mr. Woolsey serves on a range of government, corporate, and non-profit advisory boards and chairs several, including that of the Washington firm, ExecutiveAction LLC. He serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy. He is currently Co-Chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger. He is Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a Trustee of the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. Previously he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian Institution, and a trustee of Stanford University. He has also been a member of The National Commission on Terrorism, 1999–2000; The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998; The President’s Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989; The President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), 1985–1986; and The President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission), 1983. www.UnitedAgainstNuclearIran.com Mr. Woolsey has served in the past as a member of boards of directors of a number of publicly and privately held companies, generally in fields related to technology and security, including Martin Marietta; British Aerospace, Inc.; Fairchild Industries; and Yurie Systems, Inc. Mr. Woolsey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attended Tulsa public schools, graduating from Tulsa Central High School. He received his B.A. degree from Stanford University (1963, With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1963–1965), and an LL.B from Yale Law School (1968, Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal). Mr. Woolsey is a frequent contributor of articles to major publications, and from time to time gives public speeches and media interviews on the subjects of foreign affairs, defense, energy, and intelligence. He is married to Suzanne Haley Woolsey and they have three sons, Robert, Daniel, and Benjamin. Fouad Ajami – Advisory Board Fouad Ajami is The Majid Khadduri Professor and Director of Middle East Studies at The Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC, a position he has held since 1980. He is the author of The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey, The Arab Predicament, Beirut: The City of Regrets, The Vanished Imam, and The Foreigner’s Gift (published in 2006.) Professor Ajami is the recipient of the MacArthur Prize Fellowship, which he was awarded in 1982. In 2006 he received the Bradley prize for Outstanding Achievement and the National Medal of the Humanities which was awarded by the president of the United States. He has been, since 1989, a contributing editor for U.S. News & World Report. He is a member of the editorial board of the magazine, Foreign Affairs. He has been since 2002 a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mike Gerson – Advisory Board Mr. Gerson is a twice-weekly columnist for The Washington Post, writing about politics, global health and development, religion and foreign policy. He is the author of the book "Heroic Conservatism" and a contributor to Newsweek magazine. Mr. Gerson was a top aide to President George W. Bush as assistant to the president for policy and strategic planning. Prior to that appointment, he served in the White House as deputy assistant to the president and director of presidential speechwriting and assistant to the president for speechwriting and policy advisor. Mr. Gerson serves on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience, the Board of Directors of the Bread for the World, the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee and the Initiative for Global Development Leadership Council. www.UnitedAgainstNuclearIran.com Mr. Gerson is a graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois. He grew up in the St. Louis area and now lives with his wife and sons in northern Virginia. Dr. Leslie H. Gelb – Advisory Board Dr. Leslie H. Gelb is among America’s most prominent foreign policy experts. A Pulitzer Prize winner, former correspondent for The New York Times, and senior official in state and defense departments, he is currently president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, having served as president of the organization from 1993-2003. Prior to his tenure as president of the Council, Dr. Gelb established a distinguished career at The New York Times, where he was a columnist from 1991 to 1993, deputy editorial page editor from 1986 to 1990, and editor of the Op-Ed Page from 1988 to 1990. He was national security correspondent for the Times from 1981 to 1986, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1985. He was diplomatic correspondent at the Times from 1973 to 1977. Dr. Gelb was senior advocate for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1980 to 1981, where he was consultant to the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. From 1977 to 1979, he was an Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter Administration, serving as director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, where he received the highest State Department award: the Distinguished Honor Award. He was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1969 to 1973, during which time he was also a visiting professor at Georgetown University. He was director of Policy Planning and Arms Control for International Security Affairs at the Department of Defense from 1967 to 1969, where he also served as director of the Pentagon Papers Project. While at the Defense Department, Dr. Gelb won the Pentagon's highest award, the Distinguished Service Award. He was executive assistant to U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javitz from 1966 to 1967, and an assistant professor at Wesleyan University from 1965 to 1966. He is currently a trustee for The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and for Tufts University. He is a board member of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and an advisory board member for the Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and a fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Gelb received a B.A. from Tufts University in 1959, and his M.A. in 1961 and Ph.D. in 1964 from Harvard University. He is the author of Anglo-American Relations, 1945-1950: Toward a Theory of Alliances (1988). He is also co-author of The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked (1980), which won him the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Award; Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy (1984), and Claiming the Heavens (Star Wars) (1988). Dr. Gelb, who resides in New York City, is married to Judith Cohen and is the father of three children. He was the recipient of the Father of the Year Award in 1993. www.UnitedAgainstNuclearIran.com Henry Sokolski – Advisory Board Henry Sokolski is the Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC), a Washington-based nonprofit organization founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues among policy-makers, scholars and the media. He currently serves as an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics in Washington; and as a member on the Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, to which he was appointed in May 2008.