Speaker biographies

John R. Bolton is a senior fellow at AEI, where he studies foreign policy and international organizations. Ambassador Bolton served as the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) from August 2005 to December 2006. From May 2001 to May 2005, he was under secretary of state for arms control and international security. Prior to this, Ambassador Bolton served as senior vice president of AEI and also held a number of positions in public service, including assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs, 1989–93; assistant attorney general, 1985–89; assistant administrator for program and policy coordination, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), 1982–83; and USAID general counsel, 1981–82. From 1983 to 1985, Ambassador Bolton was an associate and then member of Covington & Burling, LLP.

Christopher DeMuth is the president of AEI. Before coming to AEI in 1986, he was managing director of Lexecon, Inc., an economics consulting firm (1984–86); editor and publisher of Regulation magazine (1986–87); administrator for regulatory affairs at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief in the Reagan administration (1981–84); lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government and director of the Harvard Faculty Project on Regulation (1977–81); and a lawyer in private practice (1973–77). His articles on government regulation and other subjects have appeared in The Public Interest, the Harvard Law Review, The Yale Journal on Regulation, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The American Enterprise, and elsewhere.

Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994 and re-elected in 2000 and 2006, after having served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves on the Senate’s Finance Committee, where he is the ranking Republican on the Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight, and on the Judiciary Committee, where he is the ranking Republican on the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security. As chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, he directs the communications operations of Senate Republicans and is the third-ranking member of the Republican leadership.

Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-D-Conn.) was elected to the Connecticut State Senate in 1970 and served there for ten years, including the last six as majority leader. In 1980, he returned to private legal practice for two years, and from 1983 through 1988, he served as Connecticut’s attorney general. Senator Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate in 1988. He is the chairman and former ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. He is currently a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, for which he is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection. He is also a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, for which he is ranking member of the Subcommittee on Air-Land Forces, and he sits on the Personnel and Sea Power Subcommittees and the Small Business Committee.

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