FOREIGN POLICY/ NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORS

Top Advisors:

Randy Scheunemann
Director of Foreign Policy & National Security, John McCain, 2008
Former National security aide to then-Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Trent Lott, former consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and founder of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI)
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Dr. Kori Schake
Senior Policy Advisor on the McCain 2008 Presidential campaign. On a leave of absence from a research fellowship at the Hoover Institution, and as Bradley Professor of International Security Studies at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
Full bio

Source:
"DC event, Randy Scheunemann and Kori Schake, John McCain 2008 (Campaign Series)" at the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy website

Lorne W. Craner
President of the International Republican Institute, former Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor for Secretary of State Colin Powell
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Richard Fontaine
Legislative Assistant for Senator McCain on Foreign Affairs, and former Associate Director at the National Security Council
Full Bio

Source:
"McCain campaign adviser: Ideals will win War on Terror," Talk Radio News Service, May 29, 2008

Stephen E. Biegun
Former national security aide to then-Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and now Ford Motors Vice President of International Government Affairs
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Michael J. Green
Former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council under President George W. Bush and now Japan chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Ambassador Richard R. Burt
Senior Advisor at Kissinger McLarty Associates and senior advisor to the Carlyle Group, a private equity investment firm, and former U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany from 1985 to 1989.
Full bio

Source:
"NY Times: McCain Vows To Work With Russia on Arms," JohnMcCain.com, May 27, 2008

Daniel Twining
Advisor to John McCain, 2008
Currently at the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State, focusing on international organizations. Former Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund (based in Oxford and New Delhi) and concurrently the Fulbright/Oxford Scholar at the University of Oxford, former foreign policy advisor to Senator McCain
Full bio

Source:
"Clinton, McCain, Obama, And Edwards Campaign Foreign Policy Representatives To Discuss Issues At St. Anselm College" CSIS Press Center, December 11, 2007

Advisors:

Richard Lee Armitage, President of Armitage International; Deputy Secretary of State in the G.W. Bush Administration and an international business consultant
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Bernard Aronson
Currently founder and managing partner of private equity investment company ACON Investments, former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

James A. Baker III
Honorary Chair at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and Secretary of State from 1989-1992.
Full bio

Source:
"'Like Bush, I'd like `Guantánamo to end'" The Miami Herald, May 7, 2008

William L. Ball III
Secretary of the Navy during President Reagan’s Administration and managing director of the Loeffler Group
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007


Max Boot
Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations editor and former Wall Street Journal editorial editor
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Brig. Gen. Tom Bruner
Iowa veterans advisory committee
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Lawrence S. Eagleburger
President George H.W. Bush’s Secretary of State and a Senior Public Policy Adviser with law firm Baker Donelson, endorsed McCain April 10, 2007
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Brig. Gen. Russ Eggers
Iowa veterans advisory committee
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Maj. Gen. Merrill Evans
Iowa veterans advisory committee
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Niall Ferguson
Harvard historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr
Secretary of State in the Reagan Administration, Chairman of Worldwide Associates Inc., endorsed McCain April 10, 2007
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Maj. Gen. Evan "Curly" Hultman
Iowa veterans advisory committee
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Frederick W. Kagan
American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar and co-author of GW Bush's "surge" strategy for Iraq
Full bio

Source:
"Whom the Candidates Listen to on Iraq" U.S. News and World Report, March 28, 2008

Robert Kagan
Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington Post columnist and former speechwriter for then-secretary of state George P. Shultz; informal foreign policy adviser
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Gen. Jack Keane
Retired Army general and co-author of GW Bush's "surge" strategy for Iraq
Full bio

Source:
"Whom the Candidates Listen to on Iraq" U.S. News and World Report, March 28, 2008

Brig. Gen. Robert Michael Kimmitt
Current Deputy Treasury Secretary, informal national security adviser
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford Administrations who met McCain in Vietnam and is now a consultant
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Col. Andrew F. Krepinevich
President of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, briefed McCain as well as Sen. Hillary Clinton and Gov. Bill Richardson
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

William Kristol
Editor of The Weekly Standard, informal foreign policy adviser to the campaign
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Adm. Charles Larson
Former Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy and now Chairman of consulting firm ViaGlobal Group, informal national security adviser to the campaign
Full bio

John Lehman
Foreign and Defense Policy Advisor to John McCain 2008
Chairman of J.F. Lehman and Co.
Full bio

Source:
"America Abroad Media Town Hall Meeting: "Foreign Policy and the Presidential Election: America's Image Problem", American University Radio, April 7, 2008

Robert "Bud" McFarlane
National Security Adviser in the Reagen Administration and now a principal with Energy & Communications Solutions
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Brig. Gen. Warren "Bud" Nelson
Iowa veterans advisory committee
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Brig. Gen. Eddie Newman
Iowa veterans advisory committee
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Maj. Gen. John Peppers
Iowa veterans advisory committee
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Maj. Ralph Peters
Writer and retired Army officer, informal national security adviser
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Brig. Gen. Maurice Phillips
Iowa veterans advisory committee
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

James R. Schlesinger
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mitre Corporation, Chairman of the Advisory Council for the National Interest; Secretary of Defense in the Nixon and Ford Administrations, Energy and National Security Adviser to the campaign
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Gary Schmitt
Former Staff Director of the Senate Intelligence Committee and now an American Enterprise Institute scholar,
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft
National Security Adviser to Presidents Ford and George H.W. Bush and founder of business consultancy the Scowcroft Group
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

George P. Shultz
President Reagan’s Secretary of State and a Hoover Institution Fellow, endorsed McCain April 10, 2007
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Brig. Gen. W.L. "Bill" Wallace
Iowa Veterans Advisory Committee
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Maj. Gen. Gary Wattnem
Iowa Veterans Advisory Committee
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

Ruth Wedgewood
Director of the International Law and Organizations Program at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Full bio

R. James Woolsey
Former CIA Director and now Vice President at consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton
Full bio

Source:
"Press Release," American Society of International Law, March 24, 2008

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007

FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICY ADVISORS

Top Advisors

Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Chief Economic Policy Advisor
Peterson Institute
Full bio

Source:
"Candidate's Economic Adviser's Take Center Stage" at Kiplinger Business Resource Center, March 5, 2008
"ECO:nomics: Presidential Energy Advisers"Grist, March 15, 2008

Phil Levy
Resident Scholar for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Former Senior Economist for Trade on the President's Council of Economic Advisers
Full bio

Source:
"Senator McCain Announces Economic Advisors" McCain 08, July 12, 2007


Advisors

Ken Rogoff
Professor of Economics, Harvard University and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, and former Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Full bio

Source:
"Candidate's Economic Adviser's Take Center Stage" at Kiplinger Business Resource Center, March 5, 2008


John Taylor
Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Full bio

Source:
"Profs Advise '08 Candidates: John Taylor" The Stanford Daily, February 5, 2008


Pete Peterson
Chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Chairman and C-founder of the Blackstone Group, Former Secretary of Commerce, ex-Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and former CEO of Lehman Brothers
Full bio

Source:
"Candidate's Economic Adviser's Take Center Stage" at Kiplinger Business Resource Center, March 5, 2008

Kevin Hassett
Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute
Full bio

Source:
"A Political Comeback: Supply-Side Economics" The New York Times, March 26, 2008


Gerald Parsky
Partner, Aurora Capital Group
Full bio

Source:
"Gerald Parsky Supports McCain's Presidency" BNet, March 8, 2007

Michael Moore
Professor Of Economics And International Affairs, George Washington University
Full bio

Source:
"Senator McCain Announces Economic Advisors" McCain 08, July 12, 2007

Anne Krueger
Professor At The Johns Hopkins School Of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) & Former First Deputy Managing Director, IMF
Full bio

Source:
"Senator McCain Announces Economic Advisors" McCain 08, July 12, 2007

Tim Kane
Director, Center for International Trade and Economics, Heritage Foundation
Full bio

Source:
"Senator McCain Announces Economic Advisors" McCain 08, July 12, 2007

Juan Buttari
Independent Consultant And Researcher In Development Economics
Full bio

Source:
"Senator McCain Announces Economic Advisors" McCain 08, July 12, 2007

Dr. John Taylor
Professor Of Economics At Stanford, Senior Fellow At The Hoover Institution & Former Under Secretary Of Treasury
Full bio

Source:
"Senator McCain Announces Economic Advisors" McCain 08, July 12, 2007

Anthony Villamil
Chief Executive Officer, The Washington Economics Group, Inc. & Former Under Secretary Of Commerce For Economic Affairs
Full bio

Source:
"Senator McCain Announces Economic Advisors" McCain 08, July 12, 2007

Sean O'Keefe
Former Secretary Of The Navy, NASA Administrator, & Deputy Director Of Office of Management & Budget, The White House
Full bio

Source:
"Senator McCain Announces Economic Advisors" McCain 08, July 12, 2007


SENATE OFFICE STAFF

Richard Fontaine

Legislative Assistant for Foreign Affairs

Full Bio