Day: February 22, 2010
Time: 3:45 PM
Location: TBD
Robert Hunter is Senior Advisor at the RAND Corporation. He is also Senior International Consultant to Lockheed Martin Overseas Corporation, serves on the Senior Advisory Group to the US European Command, and is a Senior Concept Developer for Allied Command Transformation.
From 1993-1998, Robert Hunter was U.S. Ambassador to NATO and represented the U.S. to the Western European Union. He was a principal architect of the New NATO. From 1981-1993, Ambassador Hunter was at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, including as Vice President for International Politics. Throughout the Carter Administration, he served on the National Security Council staff, with responsibility for West European Affairs and then Middle East Affairs. Earlier, he was Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Senior Fellow at the Overseas Development Council, Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and foreign and domestic policy advisor to Vice President Hubert Humphrey. He served on the LBJ White House staff (health, education, welfare, labor) and in the Navy Department. He has played a senior national policy role in 9 presidential campaigns and written speeches for 3 Presidents and 3 Vice Presidents.
Ambassador Hunter was educated at Wesleyan University and the London School of Economics (PhD in International Relations; Fulbright Scholar). He has taught at LSE, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Washington College, and George Washington.. He was twice decorated by the Defense Department (Medal for Distinguished Public Service) and by seven foreign governments, including the French Légion dhonneur. His most recent publication (of more than 850) is Building Security in the Persian Gulf (February 2010).
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