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Welcome to an "update-able" list of the foreign policy advisors to the 2008 Presidential candidates, including biographies and source information. This list does not come from the campaigns; rather, it represents a collection of publicly available information. We have defined "foreign policy" to consist of a broad range of issues related to U.S. engagement with the world. The list for each candidate includes:

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Obama, Barack

FrancescoFemia — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:47:52 CDT

FOREIGN POLICY/ NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORS

TOP ADVISORS:

Foreign Policy Coordinator

Denis McDonough
Foreign Policy Coordinator, briefs the candidate on all foreign affairs issues.
Center for American Progress Senior Fellow and former policy adviser to then-Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, and a Latin America specialist. McDonough is the youngest of the three key Obama foreign policy advisors, who also include Susan Rice and Anthony Lake (see below).
Full bio

Source:
"Obama's Brain Trust Taking Shape" The New York Sun, February 21, 2008
"The Obama Doctrine"The American Prospect, March 24, 2008
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

Members of Obama's National Security Working Group
[The following 13 names represent the group announced by Obama on June 18, 2008. As indicated, some members of this group play an active day-to-day role; others are not as centrally involved.]

Susan E. Rice
Former Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs at the State Department in the Clinton Administration. On leave from the Brookings Institution, plays a key role in foreign policy operation (along with Lake and McDonough).
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008
"The Obama Doctrine"The American Prospect, March 24, 2008
"Clinton veterans mix with new faces on Obama's campaign," AFP, June 23, 2008
"Obama's National Security Working Group," The Atlantic.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama Convenes National Security Working Group," Washingtonpost.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

W. Anthony (Tony) Lake
National Security Adviser in the Clinton Administration (1993-1997) and now a Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Along with Rice and McDonough, a key foreign policy advisor.
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008
"The Obama Doctrine"The American Prospect, March 24, 2008
"Obama's Brain Trust Taking Shape" The New York Sun, February 21, 2008
"Obama's National Security Working Group," The Atlantic.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama Convenes National Security Working Group," Washingtonpost.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

Gregory B. Craig
An active advisor to Obama campaign. State Department Director of Policy Planning in the Clinton Administration and now a partner at law firm Williams & Connolly.
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"Obama's National Security Working Group," The Atlantic.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama Convenes National Security Working Group," Washingtonpost.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

Richard Danzig
Key defense advisor to Obama campaign. Former Secretary of the Navy and now a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008
"Obama's Inner Circle" the National Journal, March 31, 2008
"Obama's National Security Working Group," The Atlantic.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama Convenes National Security Working Group," Washingtonpost.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

James (Jim) Steinberg
Dean of the London B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and former Deputy National Security Advisor. Although he is based outside of Washington, DC, in Texas, observers noted his participation in the Obama overseas trip.
Full Bio

Source:
"Obama's National Security Working Group," The Atlantic.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama Convenes National Security Working Group," Washingtonpost.com, June 18, 2008

Madeleine K. Albright
Former Secretary of State and currently Chairperson of the National Democratic Institute, Principal of The Albright Group LLC and Chair and Principal of Albright Capital Management LLC
Full bio

Source:
"Clinton veterans mix with new faces on Obama's campaign," AFP, June 23, 2008
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008
"Obama's National Security Working Group," The Atlantic.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama Convenes National Security Working Group," Washingtonpost.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

Warren Christopher
Senior Partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, and U.S. Secretary of State from 1993-1997
Full bio

Source:
"Clinton veterans mix with new faces on Obama's campaign," AFP, June 23, 2008
"Obama's National Security Working Group," The Atlantic.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama Convenes National Security Working Group," Washingtonpost.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

Sam Nunn
Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and Former U.S. Senator from Georgia
Full bio

Source:
"Clinton veterans mix with new faces on Obama's campaign," AFP, June 23, 2008
"Obama's National Security Working Group," The Atlantic.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama Convenes National Security Working Group," Washingtonpost.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

David Boren
President of the University of Oklahoma, Former Senator and Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Full Bio

Source:
"Obama's National Security Working Group," The Atlantic.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama Convenes National Security Working Group," Washingtonpost.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

Eric H. Holder Jr.
Partner at Covington and Burling LLP, and former Deputy Attorney General
Full Bio

Source:
"Obama's National Security Working Group," The Atlantic.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama Convenes National Security Working Group," Washingtonpost.com, June 18, 2008

William Perry
Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Professor at Stanford University, and Former Secretary of Defense
Full Bio

Source:
"Obama's National Security Working Group," The Atlantic.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama Convenes National Security Working Group," Washingtonpost.com, June 18, 2008

Tim Roemer
President of the Center for National Policy, former Congressman from Indiana and member of 9/11 Commission.
Full Bio

Source:
"Obama's National Security Working Group," The Atlantic.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama Convenes National Security Working Group," Washingtonpost.com, June 18, 2008

Lee H. Hamilton
President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Committees
Full bio

Source:
"Former Rep Hamilton to Endorse Obama" Associated Press, April 2, 2008
"Obama's National Security Working Group," The Atlantic.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama Convenes National Security Working Group," Washingtonpost.com, June 18, 2008
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

OTHER ADVISORS:

Former Ambassador Jeffrey Bader
Director, John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution, National Security Council’s director of Asian affairs, 1997-1999 and Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China, 2001-2002
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

John Brennan
President and CEO of the Analysis Corp., an intelligence contractor in McLean, Va.
Full bio

Source:
"Obama's Inner Circle" the National Journal, March 31, 2008

Dennis B. Ross
Former Director for Policy Planning at the State Department in the G.W Bush Administration and Special Middle East coordinator in the Clinton Administration. Now a Washington Institute for Near East Policy fellow. Was with Obama on his Mideast trip.

Full bio
Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"FACTBOX - Obama's advisers on Middle East policy," Reuters, March 11, 2008
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

Daniel B. Shapiro
Key Middle East Advisor to Obama, Director for Legislative Affairs at the National Security Council in the Clinton Administration and now Vice President of Timmons & Company. Was with Obama on his Mideast trip.
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"Obama's Brain Trust Taking Shape" The New York Sun, February 21, 2008
"FACTBOX - Obama's advisers on Middle East policy," Reuters, March 11, 2008

Philip H. Gordon
Former National Security Council Director for European Affairs and now a Brookings senior fellow. Was with Obama on his Europe trip.
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"Obama's Inner Circle" the National Journal, March 31, 2008
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

Maj. Gen. J. (Jonathan) Scott Gration
An important advisor to Obama on military issues. Air Force veteran and now CEO of Africa anti-poverty effort Millennium Villages. Regularly blogs on the Obama campaign site
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Obama Doctrine"The American Prospect, March 24, 2008
"Obama's Brain Trust Taking Shape" The New York Sun, February 21, 2008
"Obama's Inner Circle" the National Journal, March 31, 2008
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

Mark Lippert
Obama Senate office staff member.

Source:
"From the Campaign to the Battlefront," The Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2007
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

Ben Rhodes
Obama's national security speechwriter, and Special Assistant to President Lee H. Hamilton at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Full bio

Source:
"The Obama Doctrine"The American Prospect, March 24, 2008
"Obama's Brain Trust Taking Shape" The New York Sun, February 21, 2008
"FACTBOX - Obama's advisers on Middle East policy," Reuters, March 11, 2008

Ivo H. Daalder
National Security Council Director for European Affairs during the Clinton Administration and now a Brookings senior fellow. Focuses on non-proliferation issues, in particular.
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"Obama's Inner Circle" the National Journal, March 31, 2008
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

Gayle Smith
Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and formerly Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council.
Full bio

Source:
"Over 70 Foreign Policy Experts Announce Endorsement of Barack Obama for President", Obama '08 campaign website, December 19, 2007
"Getting Ready for the 2008 Presidential Election," One World United States website, August 3, 2007

Bruce O. Riedel
Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs, National Security Council, and now a Brookings senior fellow
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

Eric Lynn
Jewish Affairs staffer for Obama, former senior legislative assistant to Rep. Peter Deutsch (D-Fla.)
Full Bio

Source:
"When Hillary's Josh Met Obama's Eric," The Jerusalem Post, March 18, 2008

Michael A. McFaul
Director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) for International Studies at Stanford University, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he co-directs the Iran Democracy Project, and author of several books on Russian politics and history
Full bio

Source:
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

Mark Brzezinski
Former Director of Southeast European Affairs at the National Security Council and now a partner at law firm McGuireWoods
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008

Zbigniew Brzezinski
President Carter’s National Security Adviser and now a Center for Strategic and International Studies counselor and trustee.
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"Obama's Brain Trust Taking Shape" The New York Sun, February 21, 2008

Joseph Cirincione
Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress, previously Director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Full bio

Source:
"Behind Obama and Clinton," Foreign Policy in Focus Commentary, February 4, 2008

Richard A. Clarke
President Clinton and President George W. Bush’s Chief Counterterrorism Advisor at the National Security Council, now Chairman of Good Harbor Consulting and an ABC News contributor
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008

Gen. Wesley K. Clark
Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO, 1997-2000, and currently a Democratic fundraiser
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008
"General Clark Says McCain Oversold Navy Experience," Bloomberg.com, June 29, 2008

Lawrence J. Korb
Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1981-1985 and now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008
"Obama's Inner Circle" the National Journal, March 31, 2008

Lee Feinstein
Former National Security Director/ Coordinator for Hillary Clinton for President,
Principal Deputy Director of the State Department Policy Planning Staff in the Clinton Administration, and former Senior Advisor for Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1994-1995
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008
“Team Obama Goes Cherry-Picking” The New York Observer, July 1, 2008

Daniel Kurtzer
Former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt (1997-2001) and Israel (2001-2005). Currently Lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Full bio

Source:
"Obama's New Foreign Policy Adviser Daniel Kurtzer," American Thinker, April 10, 2008
"Obama, Clinton Tout Duelling Endorsements from Ex-Ambassadors to Israel," The Jewish Daily Forward, March 3, 2008

James M. Ludes
Former defense and foreign policy adviser to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and now Executive Director of the American Security Project
Full bio

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

Gen. Merrill A. ("Tony") McPeak
Former Air Force Chief of Staff and now a business consultant
Full bio

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

Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA)
Pennsylvania Congressman and Iraq war veteran
Full bio

Source:
"Why I Support Senator Obama," Obama '08 Community Blog, August 21, 2007

Leon Panetta
Director of the Panetta Institute and former Chief of Staff to President Clinton.
Full bio

Source:
“Obama Camp Begins Delicate Task Of Wooing Clinton's Supporters,” The Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2008

Jack Reed
Rhode Island Senator, serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Full bio

Source:
"Obama's Key Foreign Policy Advisors," The New York Times, July 18, 2008

Sarah Sewall
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance in the Clinton Administration and now Director of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Obama Doctrine"The American Prospect, March 24, 2008

Theodore Sorensen
Former Speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy
Full bio

Source:
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008

Mona Sutphen
Former aide to President Clinton’s National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger and to United Nations Ambassador Bill Richardson and now Managing Director, New York office of Stonebridge International, a business consultancy
Full bio

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

Robert Wexler
Democratic Congressman from Florida, Senior Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Chairman of its Subcommittee on Europe
Full bio

Source:
"FACTBOX - Obama's advisers on Middle East policy," Reuters, March 11, 2008

Mara Rudman
Informal advisor to the campaign, formerly supporter of Hillary Clinton. Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and former Deputy National Security Advisor

Full bio

Source:

“Team Obama Goes Cherry-Picking” The New York Observer, July 1, 2008

Robert Einhorn
Senior adviser in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies , and former assistant secretary for nonproliferation at the State Department
Full bio

Source:
“Team Obama Goes Cherry-Picking” The New York Observer, July 1, 2008

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ADVISORS

Jason Grumet
Official head of Environment and Energy Policy Committee for Obama '08, and President of the Bipartisan Policy Center
Full bio

Source:
"Obama's Inner Circle" the National Journal, March 31, 2008

Howard Learner
Top environmental advisor, and Executive Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Center
Full bio

Source:
"Obama's Inner Circle" the National Journal, March 31, 2008

Frank Loy
On the boards of several national green groups. Was Under-Secretary of State for Global Affairs from 1998 to January 2001, held State Department posts during the Clinton, Carter, and Johnson administrations, and spent 14 years as president of the German Marshall Fund.
Full bio

Source:
"Obama's Inner Circle" the National Journal, March 31, 2008

Daniel Esty
Environmental law professor at Yale, at Environmental Protection Agency during the George H.W. Bush Administration
Full bio

Source:
"Obama's Inner Circle" the National Journal, March 31, 2008

Daniel Kammen
Energy and public policy professor at the University of California (Berkeley)
Full bio

Source:
"Obama's Inner Circle" the National Journal, March 31, 2008

Robert Sussman
Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, spent 10 years practicing environmental law at Latham & Watkins, and was at EPA during the Clinton Administration.
Full bio

Source:
"Obama's Inner Circle" the National Journal, March 31, 2008

FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICY ADVISORS

Jason Furman
Furman is characterized as Obama’s top economic advisor. Though his focus is not international issues, we have included him on this list given the importance of his role. He is former Director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, and former Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the Clinton Administration
Full Bio

Source:
"Obama's selection of Jason Furman as economic adviser is criticized" at Los Angeles Times, June 10, 2008

Austan Goolsbee
Economic Advisor
Currently at the University of Chicago
Full bio

Source:
"Candidate's Economic Adviser's Take Center Stage" at Kiplinger Business Resource Center, March 5, 2008
"Obama's Inner Circle" the National Journal, March 31, 2008

Stuart Eizenstat
Partner, Covington and Burling LLP, chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Carter; U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration (1993-2001).
Full bio

Source:
"Former Diplomats Offer Candidates Advice" USA Today
“Team Obama Goes Cherry-Picking” The New York Observer, July 1, 2008

Gene Sperling
Economic Advisor
Currently at the Center for American Progress
Full bio

Source:
"Candidate's Economic Adviser's Take Center Stage" at Kiplinger Business Resource Center, March 5, 2008
“Team Obama Goes Cherry-Picking” The New York Observer, July 1, 2008

William M. Daley
Currently head of Corporate Responsibility at JP Morgan Chase and Co.
Former Secretary of Commerce and chairman of President Clinton's NAFTA Task Force
Bio

Source:
"Obama's Brain Trust" at Newsweek, June 3, 2008

Michael Froman
Informal adviser
Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure and Sustainable Development at Citi Alternative Investments, and former former chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin
Full bio

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

David Lipton
Managing Director and Head of Global Country Risk Management, Citigroup, former Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs at the Treasury Department from 1993 to 1998..
Full bio

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

Daniel Tarullo
Professor of Law, Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
Full bio

Source:
"Obama's Inner Circle" the National Journal, March 31, 2008

Paul Volcker
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Group of Thirty, Professor of International Economic Policy, Emeritus, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; former Federal Reserve Chairman
Full bio

Source:
"Volcker: I Endorse Obama" The Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2008

McCain, John

FrancescoFemia — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:47:37 CDT

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

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FOREIGN POLICY/ NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORS

NOTE (6-25-2008): Given that Barack Obama is currently the presumptive Democratic nominee, many of the individuals below are no longer advising the Clinton campaign. Some may be advising Barack Obama and some may simply no longer be associated with a campaign. As information becomes available, these names will be relocated or removed. However, this page will remain active for the time being, so viewers are aware of which advisers were available to Clinton, and may potentially be sought out by Barack Obama.

Top Advisors:

Lee Feinstein
National Security Director/ Coordinator
Hillary Clinton for President
Principal Deputy Director of the State Department Policy Planning Staff in the Clinton Administration, and former Senior Advisor for Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1994-1995
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008

Samuel R. Berger
Former National Security Adviser in the Clinton Administration and currently Co-Chairman of Stonebridge International, LLC.
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008

Richard C. Holbrooke
US Ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton Administration and broker of the Dayton Peace Accords (now a Washington Post columnist and Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC)
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008

Madeleine K. Albright
Former Secretary of State and currently Chairperson of the National Democratic Institute, Principal of The Albright Group LLC and Chair and Principal of Albright Capital Management LLC
Full bio

Source:
"Clinton veterans mix with new faces on Obama's campaign," AFP, June 23, 2008
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008

Gregory B. Craig
State Department Director of Policy Planning in the Clinton Administration and now a partner at law firm Williams & Connolly
Full bio

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

Gen. Wesley K. Clark
Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO, 1997-2000, and currently a Democratic fundraiser, endorsed Sen. Clinton Sept. 15, 2007.
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008
Warren Christopher
Senior Partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, and former U.S. Secretary of State from 1993-1997
Full bio

Source:
"Clinton veterans mix with new faces on Obama's campaign," AFP, June 23, 2008

Advisors:

Lt. Gen. Daniel William Christman
A former West Point Superintendent and now Senior Vice President for International Affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Full bio

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

John H. Dalton
Former Secretary of the Navy and now President of the Financial Services Roundtable’s Housing Policy Council, Veterans and Military Retirees for Hillary
Full bio

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

Rudy de Leon
Senior Vice President of National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress
Former Deputy Defense Secretary in the Clinton Administration
Full bio

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

Lt. Gen. Paul Eaton
Retired from the military in 2006, he trained Iraqi security forces from 2003-2004
Op Ed Article

Source:
"Who the Candidates Listen to on Iraq," U.S. News and World Report, March 28, 2008
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008

Leslie H. Gelb
President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, former Assistant Secretary of State for Political/ Military Affairs (1977-79) and Director of Policy Planning and Arms Control for International Security Affairs, Department of Defense (1967-69), former New York Times correspondent
Full bio

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

Martin S. Indyk
U.S. Ambassador to Israel in the Clinton Administration and now Director of Brookings’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy
Full bio

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

Gen. John M. ("Jack") Keane (NOTE: Based on the criteria articulated on our home page, we have included Gen. Keane on this list. However, Senator Clinton has indicated that Gen. Keane is not an adviser to the campaign - see ABC News article below)

A former Army Vice Chief of Staff who co-crafted the Iraq "surge" is now a military analyst (sometimes for ABC news). Is also co-founder and Senior Managing Director of Keane Advisors, LLC, a private equity investment and consulting firm, President of GSI, LLC, an independent consulting firm.
Full bio

Source:
"Political Radar," ABC News, March 7, 2008
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008

Lt. Gen. Claudia J. Kennedy
Former Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Veterans and Military Retirees for Hillary
Full bio

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

Lt. Gen. Donald L. Kerrick
Former Deputy National Security Adviser in the Clinton Administration, organizes meetings of retired officers
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 Hillary Clinton as well as Sen. John McCain and Gov. Bill Richardson
Full bio

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

Vali Nasr
Professor of International Politics at Tufts University - Naval Postgraduate School professor, Middle East adviser to the campaign
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008

Rep. (and retired Vice Adm.) Joseph Sestak
Veterans and Military Retirees for Hillary
Full bio

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

Steve Simon
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Full bio

Source:
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars" The Nation, January 3, 2008

Jeffrey H. Smith
Former CIA general counsel and now a partner leading the public policy and government contracts group of law firm Arnold & Porter
Full bio

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

Ray Takeyh
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Full bio

Source:
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars"The Nation, January 3, 2008

Strobe Talbott
President of the Brookings Institution
Full bio

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

Togo D. West
President Clinton’s Secretary for Veterans Affairs and former Secretary of the Army, Veterans and Military Retirees for Hillary
Full bio

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

Former Amb. Joseph C. Wilson IV
Endorsed Sen. Clinton July 16, 2007
Full bio

Source:
"The War Over the Wonks," Washington Post, October 2, 2007
"The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars" The Nation, January 3, 2008

FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICY ADVISORS

Top Advisors:

Gene Sperling
Chief Economic Advisor to Hillary Clinton
Currently at the Center for American Progress
Full bio

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

Roger Altman
Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Evercore Partners; Former Deputy Treasury Secretary in the Clinton Administration, and Hillary Clinton's chief liaison to the financial markets industry
Full bio

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

Robert Rubin
Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Citi, formerly U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1995-1999), Assistant to President Clinton for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council
Full bio

Source:
"Candidate's Economic Adviser's Take Center Stage" at Kiplinger Business Resource Center, March 5, 2008
"Rubin Pledges Clinton Support" Washington Post, Nov. 8, 2007

Advisors

Steve Rattner
A telecom venture capitalist and former Morgan Stanley executive
Full bio

Source:
Is Clinton Bad for Business? MSN Money, February 29, 2008

Stuart Eisenstat
Partner, Covington and Burling LLP, chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Carter; U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration (1993-2001).
Full bio

Source:
"Former Diplomats Offer Candidates Advice" USA Today

Larry Benn
Sen. Clinton's Deputy Economic Advisor
Full bio

Source:
Yesterday in the States, Hillary For President, January 17, 2008

Gary Gensler
Senior Advisor, Hillary Clinton for President Exploratory Committee
Currently Audit Committee Chair of Wage Works. Department of Treasury from 1997 to 2001, first as Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets and later as Under Secretary for Domestic Finance.
Full bio

Source:
Gary Gensler Bio, Wage Works

SENATE OFFICE STAFF

Andrew Shapiro
Sen. Clinton’s Senate foreign policy staffer
Full bio

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

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Thompson, Fred

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Top Advisors

Mark Esper
Senior Foreign Policy Adviser
Friends of Fred Thompson, Inc.

Tancredo, Tom

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Richardson, Bill

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Top Advisors:

Michael Contarino,
University of New Hampshire at Manchester

Calvin Humphrey,
Senior Adviser

Romney, Mitt

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Top Advisors

Mitchell B. Reiss, national security adviser for the Romney for President campaign, former state department policy planning director, Dean of International Studies at The College of William and Mary

Source: http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=16438

Steve Schrage,
Foreign Policy & Trade Director
Romney for President, Inc.

Former State Department international law specialist

Advisors

David Aufhauser, former Treasury Department general counsel and now general counsel of USB investment bank, counter-terrorism policy advisory group

Jorge L. Arrizurieta, lobbyist and major Republican donor, Latin American policy advisory group

Former Rep. Cass Ballenger, R-N.C., onetime chairman of House International Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Latin American policy advisory group

J. (Joseph) Cofer Black, former CIA and State Department counterterrorism official and now vice chairman Blackwater USA, senior adviser on counterterrorism and national security

Ted Brennan, former aide to then-Reps. Cass Ballenger, R-N.C. and Henry Hyde, R-Ill., Latin American policy advisory group

Lt. Gen. John H. ("Soup") Campbell, former vice director of Pentagon information systems and now a lobbyist for satellite communications, counter-terrorism policy advisory group

Alberto R. Cardenas, lobbyist and former chairman of the Florida Republican Party, Latin American policy advisory group

Robert Charles, former assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement, Latin American policy advisory group

Samuel Cole, COO of BlueMountain Capital Management, counter-terrorism policy advisory group

Mark Falcoff, American Enterprise Institute Latin America scholar emeritus and onetime consultant to President Reagan’s Commission on Central America, Latin American policy advisory group

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., ranking Republican on House Intelligence Committee, intelligence adviser

Kent Lucken, foreign service veteran now an international private banker with Citigroup, counter-terrorism policy advisory group

John McClurg, formerly of the FBI computer investigations and critical infrastructure threat assessment center and now vice president Honeywell Global Security, counter-terrorism policy advisory group

Larry Mefford, former FBI agent and counterterrorism official, counter-terrorism policy advisory group

Amb. Tibor Nagy, Jr., career foreign service officer with ambassadorial tours in Ethiopia and Guinea, counter-terrorism policy advisory group

Amb. Roger Francisco Noriega, former assistant secretary for Western hemisphere affairs under George W. Bush and now a lobbyist, Latin American policy advisory group

Mitchell B. Reiss, former state department policy planning director, foreign policy adviser

V. Manuel Rocha, career foreign service officer and former ambassador to Bolivia, Latin American policy advisory group

Dan Senor, former Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman and now a lobbyist and Fox News contributor, sometimes foreign policy adviser

Jose S. Sorzano, Latin America aide to President Reagan and chairman of corporate consultant Austin Group, Latin American policy advisory group

Larry Storrs, former Latin America specialist at the Congressional Research Service, Latin American policy advisory group

Caleb ("Cal") Temple, formerly with the Defense Intelligence Agency and now executive vice president of Total Intelligence Solutions, counter-terrorism policy advisory group

Former Rep. Vin Weber, R-Minn., lobbyist and chairman of the National
Endowment for Democracy, policy chairman

Ed Worthington, FBI veteran, counter-terrorism policy advisory group

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

Update (12-12-2007):

Additional Official Foreign policy Advisors

Ruth Wedgwood, International Law and Organizations Advisory Board Member,Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Robert Natter, Senior Military Advisor, retired US Navy four star Admiral after serving as Commander of the US Atlantic Fleet and the first Commander of US Fleet Forces Command

John Agresto, Iraqi Advisory Board Member, former president of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM

Owen West, Iraq Advisory Board Member, director of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation.

Michael Rubin, Senior Iran and Turkey Advisor and Middle East Advisory Board Member, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and editor of the Middle East Quarterly

Kori Schake, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and holds the Distinguished Chair of International Security Studies at the U.S. Military Academy

David Frum, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute

Thomas Joscelyn, Senior Terrorism Advisor, terrorism analyst, economist, and writer

Source: http://www.joinrudy2008.com/article/pr/890

Update (12-15-2007):

Background On The Romney For President Homeland Security Policy Advisory Group:

- Chair Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX): Congressman Smith is the Ranking Republican Member of the House Judiciary Committee and sits on the House Committee on Homeland Security.

- Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL): Congressman Aderholt serves on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.

- Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL): Congresswoman Brown-Waite sits on the House Committee on Homeland Security serving on the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection and the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, Science and Technology.

- Congresswoman Kay Granger (R-TX): Congresswoman Granger sits on the Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Homeland Security. She also Co-Chairs the Anti-Terrorism Caucus.

- Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL): Congressman Rogers sits on the House Committee on Homeland Security and is the Ranking Republican Member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Management, Investigations and Oversight.

- Peggy Binzer: Binzer has extensive experience in pandemic readiness policy as the former Senior FDA Health Counsel for the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and the Committee on the Budget.

- Ken Bouche: Bouche served as Chief Information Officer of the Illinois State Police, leading the Information and Technology Command. He also served on the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative, an advisory committee to the U.S. Attorney General on information sharing and integration initiatives. As Chair of the advisory committee, he led the development of the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan, the Fusion Center Guidelines and the Global Justice XML Data Model.

- David Cohen: Cohen served as Deputy Director for Policy and Government Affairs for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and as Chief of Staff to Commissioners Raymond Kelly and Robert Bonner at the U.S. Customs Service.

- John Jamian: Jamian most recently served as the Acting Maritime Administrator and Deputy Administrator for the U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration. He was a member of the President's National Presidential Security Directive charged with creating the national maritime security initiative. He also co-managed the Maritime Security Program and also served as Executive Director of the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority.

- Suzanne Mencer: From 2003 to 2005, Mencer served as the Director of the Office for Domestic Preparedness within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. She also served as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Safety and is a 20-year veteran of the FBI.

- Commissioner Tim Moore: In July 2003, Commissioner Moore retired as the longest serving Director of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Under Governor Jeb Bush, he was charged with coordinating domestic security efforts and serving as Incident Commander in the event of a terrorist attack. He served on the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council and then the Homeland Security Advisory Council of the new Department of Homeland Security.

- Dr. Harvey Schiller: Dr. Schiller is a former Executive Director and Secretary General of the United States Olympic Committee and a pilot in the U.S. Air Force who saw combat service in Vietnam and attained the rank of Brigadier General. He is currently the Chairman and CEO of Global Options Group, a leading risk mitigation company.

Source: http://www.mittromney.com/News/Press-Releases/Homeland_Security_Advisory

Paul, Ron

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Top Advisors:

Joe Becker, Chief Legal Advisor and Policy Director, served as deputy chief of staff and legislative director to Congressman Paul from early 1997 until late 2001, currently practices law in Denver, Colorado.

Source: http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/paul/paulorg.html

Kucinich, Dennis

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Hunter, Duncan

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Huckabee, Mike

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Top Advisors

James Pinkerton,
Senior Adviser at Huckabee for President, Inc. and Fellow at the New America Foundation
Source: Steve Clemons, "the Washington Note", January 12, 2008. Accessed at: www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002704.php

Janis Cherry,
Policy Director
Huckabee for President, Inc.
Source: Huckabee for President, Inc. website

Gravel, Mike

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Giuliani, Rudy

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Top Advisors:

Charles Hill
Chief Foreign Policy Adviser
Diplomat in Residence and Lecturer in International Studies
Yale University

Fomerly an aide to secretary of state George P. Shultz, and also a Hoover Institution research fellow

Advisors:

Gerard Alexander, University of Virginia politics professor and American Enterprise Institute visiting scholar, European advisory board

Peter Beering, Indiana terrorism preparedness coordinator and principal with consulting firm Indianapolis Terrorism Response Group, homeland security advisory board

Peter Berkowitz; Hoover Institution senior fellow and George Mason Law School professor focusing on laws, ethics and politics; senior statecraft, human rights and freedom adviser

Robert C. Bonner, former U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner and now a partner with law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, chief homeland security adviser

David R. Cameron, Yale political science professor, European advisory board

Robert Conquest; Soviet-era historian and former adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and now a Hoover Institution research fellow; senior foreign policy advisory board

Lisa Curtis, former staffer to Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and now a Heritage foundation senior research fellow, senior South Asia adviser

Carlos Eire, Cuban activist and Yale renaissance studies professor, senior foreign policy advisory board

Joshua Filler, former director Department of Homeland Security Office of State and Local Government Coordination director and now a homeland security consultant, homeland security advisory board

Louis J. Freeh, former FBI director, homeland security advisory board chairman

Nile Gardner, Heritage Foundation senior research fellow and onetime foreign policy researcher for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, European advisory board

Stephen Haber, Hoover Institution senior fellow and Stanford history and political science professor, senior western hemisphere adviser

Kim R. Holmes, President George W. Bush’s former assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs and now the Heritage Foundation vice president of foreign and defense policy studies, senior foreign policy adviser

Daniel Johnson, former Minnesota homeland security director, homeland security advisory board

Former Sen. Robert Kasten, R-Wisc., former chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee Foreign Operations Subcommittee, senior foreign policy advisory board

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., homeland security advisory board

Martin Kramer, former director of Tel Aviv University’s Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, senior Middle East adviser

Andrew B. Maner, former Department of Homeland Security chief financial officer and now a member of the board of directors at emergency management software provider Previstar, homeland security advisory board

John T. Odermatt, former commissioner of the New York City Office of Emergency Management and Citigroup’s corporate director of business continuity, homeland security advisory board

Norman Podhoretz, Hudson Institute adjunct fellow and former editor of Commentary magazine, senior foreign policy advisory board

David Pryce-Jones, novelist and essayist, senior foreign policy adviser

John Rabin, former program director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Lessons Learned Information Sharing and now a consultant, homeland security advisory board

Stephen Peter Rosen, President Reagan’s National Security Council staffer for political-military affairs and now a Harvard professor of national security and military affairs, senior defense adviser

Howard Safir, former New York City Police commissioner and now a crisis management consultant, homeland security advisory board

Richard J. Sheirer, former New York City emergency management commissioner and now a senior vice president with Giuliani Partners, homeland security advisory board

Seth Stodder, former Customs and Border Protection director of policy and planning and now a senior counsel and lobbyist with law firm Akin Gump, homeland security advisory board

C. Stewart Verdery Jr., former Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for policy and planning and founder of lobbying firm Monument Policy Group, homeland security advisory board

Thomas Von Essen, former New York City Fire commissioner and now a senior vice president with Giuliani Partners, homeland security advisory board

Kenneth Weinstein, CEO Hudson Institute, foreign policy adviser

Joe Whitley, former Department of Homeland Security general counsel and now partner with law firm Alston & Bird, homeland security advisory board

S. Enders Wimbush, Hudson Institute director of future security strategies and former security consultant, senior public diplomacy adviser

Stephen Yates, former deputy assistant to Vice President Cheney for national security affairs and now a lobbyist and American Foreign Policy Council senior fellow, senior Asia adviser

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

Edwards, John

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Top Advisors

Derek Chollet,
Chief "informal" national security adviser and Edwards’s Senate foreign policy aide

Michael Signer, onetime aide to former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, deputy policy director for foreign affairs and national security

Advisors

Barry M. Blechman, President Carter’s assistant director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and founder and chairman of the Henry L. Stimson Center, military advisory group

Irving N. Blickstein, former assistant deputy chief of Naval operations and a RAND researcher, military advisory group

Lt. Gen. Michael A. Hough, former Marine Corps deputy commandant for aviation, military advisory group

Gen. Paul J. Kern, former Army Materiel Command commander who directed the internal investigation into the abuses at Abu Ghraib and now a lobbyist with the Cohen Group, military advisory group

Gen. Lester "Les" Lyles, former commander Air Force Materiel Command and now an aerospace consultant, military advisory group

Gen. Gregory S. ("Speedy") Martin, former commander Air Force Materiel Command and now a consultant, military advisory group

Rear Adm. William J. McDaniel, former commanding officer of Portsmouth Naval Medical Center, military advisory group

Rear Adm. David R. Oliver Jr., former principal deputy under secretary for acquisition and technology and now CEO of aerospace and defense company EADS North America, military advisory group

Maj. Gen. Allen Youngman, former Kentucky adjutant general and now a defense lobbyist with American Business Development Group, military advisory group

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

Dodd, Christopher

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Biden, Joe

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Advisors:

Mike Haltzel, Senior fellow at Johns Hopkins SAIS, former staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on European Affairs, and former senior foreign policy advisor to Senator Biden

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-guttman/bidens-foreign-policy-cr_b_38144.html