Speaker biographies
Thomas Donnelly is a resident fellow in defense and security policy studies at AEI and editor of Armed Forces Journal. He is the author of The Military We Need: The Defense Requirements of the Bush Doctrine (AEI Press, 2005), Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment (AEI Press, 2004), and AEI’s monthly National Security Outlook. In February 2005, he was appointed by Senator Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to a two-year term on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. 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.
Clark K. Ervin is director of the Homeland Security Initiative and a Paul H. Nitze Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Mr. Ervin was the first inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, and had previously served as inspector general of the U.S. Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Mr. Ervin has been assistant secretary of State of Texas, deputy attorney general of Texas and was a Rhodes Scholar.
Kristin J. Forbes is associate professor of International Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-resident visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She served as a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2003 to 2005, and previously worked at the U.S. Treasury Department. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Board, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, and International Monetary Fund. Before joining MIT, Forbes worked at the World Bank and Morgan Stanley. Her academic research focuses on international finance and development economics.
David M. Marchick is a partner at Covington & Burling. He advises clients on complex international trade and investment issues, including with respect to the Exon-Florio Amendment. He is the coauthor, with Monty Graham of the Institute for International Economics, of the forthcoming book, U.S. National Security and Foreign Direct Investment, due to be published in May. He served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Trade Policy in the Clinton administration, and also served in senior policy positions at the Department of Commerce, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the White House.
Phillip L. Swagel is a resident scholar at AEI. Before joining AEI in March 2005, he was the chief of staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He has previously been a senior economist at the council, a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University, and an economist at the Federal Reserve Board and the International Monetary Fund. He has written on international trade policy, the political economy of the welfare state, and most recently on Social Security.
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