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Robert Gates

Robert Gates

Robert Gates served as the 22nd Secretary of Defense (2006-2011). He is the only Secretary of Defense in U.S. history to be asked to remain in office by a newly elected president. Dr. Gates served eight U.S. presidents across both parties. On Dr. Gates’s last day in...
Michael Froman

Michael Froman

Michael Froman is President of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He previously served as Vice Chairman and President, Strategic Growth, at Mastercard; Chairman of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth; and as a Distinguished Fellow at CFR. From June 2013 to...
Jendayi E. Frazer

Jendayi E. Frazer

Jendayi E. Frazer is the Duignan Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Previously she served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 2005 to 2009. She was Special Assistant to the President and Senior...
Michèle Flournoy

Michèle Flournoy

Michèle Flournoy is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors, and a Co-Founder, former Chief Executive Officer, and now Chair of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Michèle served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009...
Peter Feaver

Peter Feaver

Peter D. Feaver (Ph.D., Harvard, 1990) is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University. He is Director of the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy and co-PI of the America in the World Consortium. Dr. Feaver is author of Thanks for Your...
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