PRESS
RELEASE from Romney for President
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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CONTACT: Romney
Press Office
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October 6,
2011
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MITT ROMNEY ANNOUNCES FOREIGN POLICY AND NATIONAL
SECURITY ADVISORY TEAM
Boston, MA — Mitt Romney
announced today his Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team.
This group draws on a wide array of experience to advise Governor
Romney
on foreign policy strategy, defense issues, intelligence matters,
counterterrorism, and regional policy. These advisers will assist
Governor Romney as he presents his vision for
restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring
interests and ideals abroad.
“America
and our allies are facing a series of complex threats. To shape them
before they explode into conflict, our foreign policy will have to be
guided by a strategy of American strength,” Governor Romney
said. “I am deeply honored to have the counsel of this extraordinary
group of diplomats, experts, and statesmen. Their remarkable
experience, wisdom, and depth of knowledge will be critical to ensuring
that the 21st century is another American Century.”
Special
Advisers and Co-Chairs of regional and functional working groups are
listed below. Titles and affiliations are for identification
purposes
only.
SPECIAL
ADVISERS
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Cofer
Black
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Christopher
Burnham
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Michael
Chertoff
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Eliot
Cohen
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Norm
Coleman
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John
Danilovich
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Paula
Dobriansky
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Eric Edelman
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Michael
Hayden
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Kerry
Healey
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Kim
Holmes
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Robert
Joseph
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Robert
Kagan
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John
Lehman
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Walid
Phares
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Pierre
Prosper
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Mitchell
Reiss
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Daniel
Senor
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Jim
Talent
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Vin
Weber
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Richard
Williamson
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Dov
Zakheim |
WORKING
GROUPS
Afghanistan & Pakistan
·
James
Shinn, Co-Chair
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Ashley
Tellis, Co-Chair
Africa
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Tibor
Nagy, Chair
Asia-Pacific
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Evan
Feigenbaum, Co-Chair
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Aaron
Friedberg, Co-Chair
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Kent
Lucken, Co-Chair
Counter-Proliferation
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Eric
Edelman, Co-Chair
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Robert
Joseph, Co-Chair
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Stephen
Rademaker, Co-Chair
Counterterrorism/Intelligence
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Michael
Chertoff, Co-Chair
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Michael
Hayden, Co-Chair
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Defense
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John
Lehman, Co-Chair
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Roger
Zakheim, Co-Chair
Europe
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Nile
Gardiner, Co-Chair
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Kristen
Silverberg, Co-Chair
Human
Rights
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Pierre
Prosper, Chair
International
Assistance
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Grant
Aldonas, Co-Chair
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Daniel
Runde, Co-Chair
International
Organizations
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Christopher
Burnham, Co-Chair
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Paula
Dobriansky, Co-Chair
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Robert
O’Brien, Co-Chair
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Latin
America
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Clifford
Sobel, Co-Chair
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Ray
Walser, Co-Chair
Middle
East & North Africa
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Mary
Beth Long, Co-Chair
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Meghan
O’Sullivan, Co-Chair
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Walid
Phares, Co-Chair
Russia
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Leon
Aron, Co-Chair
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William
Martel, Co-Chair
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SPECIAL ADVISERS
Cofer Black
Vice
President of Blackbird Technologies; Director of the CIA
Counter-Terrorism Center (1999-2002); United States Department of State
Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism (2002-2004)
Christopher Burnham
Vice
Chairman of Deutsche Bank Asset Management; United Nations
Under-Secretary-General for Management (2005-2006); United States Under
Secretary of State for Management (2001-2005)
Michael Chertoff
Chairman
of the Chertoff Group; United States Secretary of Homeland Security
(2005-2009); Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit (2003-2005)
Eliot Cohen
Director
of the Strategic Studies Program at the School of Advanced
International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Counselor to the
United States Department of State (2007-2009); Defense Policy Advisory
Board Member (2001-2009)
Norm Coleman
Chairman
of the Board, American Action Network; Adviser to the Republican Jewish
Coalition; United States Senator (R-MN) (2003-2009)
John Danilovich
Member
of the Trilantic European Advisory Council; CEO of Millennium Challenge
Corporation (2005-2009); Ambassador to Brazil (2004-2005); Ambassador
to Costa Rica (2001-2004)
Paula Dobriansky
Senior
Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University;
Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs (2001-2009)
Eric Edelman
Visiting
Scholar at School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins
University; Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2005-2009);
Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security
Affairs (2001-2003)
Michael Hayden
Principal
of the Chertoff Group; Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
(2006-2009); Director of the National Security Agency (1999-2005)
Kerry Healey
President,
Friends of the Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in
Afghanistan; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (2003-2007); Trustee,
American University of Afghanistan
Kim Holmes
Vice
President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the Heritage
Foundation; Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization
Affairs (2001-2005)
Robert
Joseph
Senior
Scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy; Under Secretary of
State for Arms Control and International Security (2005-2007)
Robert Kagan
Syndicated
Columnist; Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in the Center on
United States and Europe; Board Member of the Foreign Policy Initiative
John Lehman
Chairman
and Founding Partner, J. F. Lehman & Co.; National Security
Advisory Counsel for the Center for Security Policy; Secretary of the
Navy (1981-1987); Member of the 9/11 Commission
Walid Phares
Professor
of Global Strategies at the National Defense University in Washington;
Member of the Advisory Board of the Task Force on Future Terrorism at
the Department of Homeland Security (2006-2007)
Pierre Prosper
Partner
at Arent Fox; United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues
(2001-2005); Special Counsel and Policy Adviser to the
Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (1999-2001)
Mitchell Reiss
President
of Washington College; Director of Policy Planning at State Department
(2001-2005); Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (2005-2007)
Daniel Senor
Partner
at Rosemont Capital; Coalition Provisional Authority Spokesman and
Senior Advisor (2003-2004); Director and Co-Founder, Foreign Policy
Initiative
Jim Talent
Distinguished Fellow at the
Heritage Foundation; United States Senator (R-MO) (2002-2007)
Vin Weber
Managing Partner, Clark &
Weinstock; Member of the United States House of Representatives (R-MN)
(1981-1993)
Richard Williamson
Partner
at Winston & Strawn; United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights (2004); Special Envoy to Sudan (2008-2009);
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
(1988-1989)
Dov Zakheim
Senior
Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Under
Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (2001-2004); Deputy Undersecretary
of Defense for Planning and Resources (1985-1987)
WORKING GROUP CHAIRS AND
CO-CHAIRS
Afghanistan & Pakistan
James Shinn, Co-Chair
Lecturer at Princeton
University; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific
Security Affairs (2007-2008)
Ashley Tellis, Co-Chair
Senior
Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Senior
Adviser to the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs (2003)
Africa
Tibor Nagy, Chair
Vice
Provost for International Affairs at Texas Tech University; Ambassador
to Ethiopia (1999-2002); Ambassador to Guinea (1996-1999)
Asia-Pacific
Evan Feigenbaum, Co-Chair
Executive
Director of the Paulson Institute; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for South and Central Asia (2006-2009); Member for East Asia, Secretary
of State's Policy Planning Staff (2001-2006)
Aaron Friedberg, Co-Chair
Professor
of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University; Deputy
Assistant for National Security Affairs and Director of Policy
Planning, Office of the Vice President (2003-2005)
Kent Lucken, Co-Chair
Director at Citigroup Private
Bank in Boston; Former Foreign Service Officer; Board Member for the
US-Asia Institute
Counter-Proliferation
Eric Edelman, Co-Chair
Visiting
Scholar at School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins
University; Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2005-2009);
Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security
Affairs (2001-2003)
Robert Joseph, Co-Chair
Senior
Scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy; Under Secretary of
State for Arms Control and International Security (2005-2007)
Stephen Rademaker, Co-Chair
Principal
at Podesta Group; Assistant Secretary of State for International
Security and Nonproliferation (2002-2006); Policy Director for National
Security Affairs and Senior Counsel to Senator Bill Frist (2006-2007)
Counterterrorism &
Intelligence
Michael Chertoff, Co-Chair
Chairman
of the Chertoff Group; Secretary of Homeland Security (2005-2009);
Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
(2003-2005)
Michael Hayden, Co-Chair
Principal
of the Chertoff Group; Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
(2006-2009); Director of the National Security Agency (1999-2005)
Defense
John Lehman, Co-Chair
Chairman
and Founding Partner, J.F. Lehman & Co.; National Security Advisory
Council for the Center for Security Policy; Secretary of the Navy
(1981-1987); Member of the 9/11 Commission
Roger Zakheim, Co-Chair
Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense (2008-2009)
Europe
Nile Gardiner, Co-Chair
Director
of the Heritage Foundation's Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom;
Foreign Policy Researcher for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
(2000-2002)
Kristen Silverberg, Co-Chair
Chief
Operating Officer at Vorbeck Materials; Ambassador to the European
Union (2008-2009); Assistant Secretary of State for International
Organization Affairs (2005-2008)
Human Rights
Pierre Prosper, Chair
Partner
at Arent Fox; United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues
(2001-2005); Special Counsel and Policy Adviser to the
Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (1999-2001)
International Assistance
Grant Aldonas, Co-Chair
Senior
Adviser at Center for Strategic and International Studies; Under
Secretary for International Trade at the Commerce Department
(2001-2005); Member of the Board of the Overseas Private Investment
Corporation (2001-2005)
Daniel Runde, Co-Chair
Director
of Prosperity and Development at Center for Strategic and International
Studies; Former Director of the Office of Global Development Alliances
at USAID (2005-2007); Head of Philanthropy Relations at the
International Finance Corporation (2007-2010)
International Organizations
Christopher Burnham, Co-Chair
Vice
Chairman Deutsche Bank Asset Management; United Nations
Under-Secretary-General for Management (2005-2006); United States Under
Secretary of State for Management (2001-2005)
Paula Dobriansky, Co-Chair
Senior
Fellow at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government;
Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs (2001-2009)
Robert O’Brien, Co-Chair
Partner
at Arent Fox; US Alternate Representative to the 60th session of the
United Nations General Assembly (2005-2006); Former legal officer with
the United Nations Security Council (Compensation Commission)
(2006-2008)
Latin America
Clifford Sobel, Co-Chair
Ambassador
to Brazil (2006-2009); Ambassador to the Netherlands (2001-2005);
Member United States Holocaust Memorial Council (1994-1998)
Ray Walser, Co-Chair
Senior
Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation; Director of the Foreign
Service Institute's Western Hemisphere Area Studies program
(2005-2007); 27-year Foreign Service Officer
Middle East & North
Africa
Mary Beth Long, Co-Chair
Senior
Vice President at Neural IQ Government Services; Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Affairs (2007-2009)
Meghan O’Sullivan, Co-Chair
Lecturer
at Kennedy School of Government; Special Assistant to President George
W. Bush and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan
(2004-2007)
Walid Phares, Co-Chair
Professor
of Global Strategies at the National Defense University in Washington;
Member of the Advisory Board of the Task Force on Future Terrorism at
the Department of Homeland Security (2006-2007)
Russia
Leon Aron, Co-Chair
Resident Scholar and Director
of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute; Author of
Yeltsin:
A
Revolutionary Life and other noted works; Contributed to
The
New Russian Foreign Policy
William Martel,
Co-Chair
Associate Professor of
International Security Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts
University
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