August 6, 2004

Speaker Biographies

Thomas Donnelly is a resident fellow in defense and security policy at AEI. He is the author of Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment (AEI Press, July 2004) and AEI’s National Security Outlook. Before coming to AEI, he served as the director of strategic communications and initiatives at Lockheed Martin and as deputy executive director of the Project for the New American Century. From 1995 to 1999, he was the policy group director, as well as a professional staff member, for the Committee on National Security (now the Committee on Armed Services) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Donnelly has also been the executive director of The National Interest, editor of the Army Times, and deputy editor of Defense News.

William Kristol is editor of the Washington-based political magazine, The Weekly Standard. Widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading political analysts and commentators, he regularly appears on Fox News Sunday and on the Fox News Channel. Before starting The Weekly Standard in 1995, Mr. Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory. Before that, Mr. Kristol served as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the first Bush administration and to Secretary of Education William Bennett under President Reagan. Before coming to Washington in 1985, Mr. Kristol taught politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Kristol recently coauthored the New York Times bestseller The War over Iraq: America’s Mission and Saddam’s Tyranny.

John Prendergast is a special adviser to the president of the International Crisis Group (ICG).  Before joining ICG, he was a special adviser to the U.S. State Department focusing on conflict resolution in Africa. He has also served as director of African affairs at the National Security Council. He has worked for a variety of think tanks, UN agencies, and NGOs in Africa and on African issues, including the U.S. Institute of Peace, Human Rights Watch, and UNICEF. He is the author of six books on Africa, including ICG’s latest book on Sudan, God, Oil & Country: Changing the Logic of War in Sudan, and has published widely on U.S. foreign policy.

Ronald Sandee works at the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands in The Hague as a senior analyst on counter-terrorism and transnational affairs. His remarks at AEI are made strictly in his capacity as a private citizen and not as a member of the Dutch military service.

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