Biography of James Woolsey

As a Vice President and officer in the firm's Global Strategic Security practice located in McLean, VA. Previously Mr. Woolsey was a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C., where he practiced for twenty-two years, on four occasions, beginning in 1973; his practice was in the fields of civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution and corporate transactions.

During the twelve years that he served in the U.S. Government, Mr. Woolsey held Presidential appointments in two Democratic and two Republican administrations. He was Director of Central Intelligence in 1993-95. He also served as Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989-1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977-1979 and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970-73. He was appointed by the President as Delegate at Large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST) and served in that capacity on a part-time basis in Geneva, 1983-1986. As an officer in the U.S. Army, he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969-1970.

Mr. Woolsey has been a Director or Trustee of numerous civic organizations, including the Smithsonian Institution, where he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents, Stanford University, the Goldwater Scholarship Foundation and the Aerospace Corporation. He has been a member of the National Commission on Terrorism, 1999-2000, the Commission To Assess The Ballistic Missile Threat To The U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998, The President's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989, The President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), 1985-1986 and The President's Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission), 1983. He is currently a Trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies, Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Clean Fuels Foundation and Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board of Global Options LLC.

Mr. Woolsey was born in Tulsa, OK in 1941. He attended Tulsa public schools, graduating from Tulsa Central High School in 1959. He received his B.A. Degree in 1963 from Stanford University (With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar 1963-65, and an LL.B from Yale Law School in 1968, where he was Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Mr. Woolsey is a frequent contributor to major publications and from time to time gives public speeches on the subjects of foreign affairs, defense, energy, and intelligence.

Programs:

The War on Terror: Why We Are In It and How We Should Fight It James Woolsey speaks about the groups/nations at war with us and the reason we were attacked on September 11th, as well as the key issues involved in homeland defense and the war abroad.

The Long War of the 21st Century: How We Must Fight It In this presentation, James Woolsey addresses how the assault on Israel relates to the assault on the United States, and how our strategies can be coordinated. Woolsey outlines two key vulnerabilities in our Homeland Defense - the electricity grid and the oil supply - and what to do about them.