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 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 was the 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. He is the author of Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad (Simon and Schuster, 2007).
Gary Milhollin is director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control and an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He was an administrative judge at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for more than a decade. Mr. Milhollin has consulted on nuclear arms proliferation for the Department of Defense, practiced international corporate law in New York and Paris, and taught courses on nuclear arms proliferation at Princeton University as well as at Wisconsin. He has directed the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control for twenty years. His articles and research reports have been cited and quoted widely in the international press, and he testifies frequently before congressional committees.
Danielle Pletka is the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI. Her research areas include the Middle East, South Asia, terrorism, and weapons proliferation. Before coming to AEI, Ms. Pletka served for ten years as a senior professional staff member for the Near East and South Asia on the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Since joining AEI, Ms. Pletka has developed a conference series on rebuilding post-Saddam Iraq, directed a project on democracy in the Arab world, and designed a project to track global business in Iran. She was a member of the congressionally mandated U.S. Institute of Peace Task Force on the United Nations, which released its final report in 2005. She recently coedited Dissent and Reform in the Arab World: Empowering Democrats (AEI Press, 2008) and coauthored the 2008 AEI report Iranian Influence in the Levant, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
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