March 5, 2004

Speaker Biographies

Christopher DeMuth has been president of AEI since 1986. He previously practiced law, was a consulting economist, taught at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and held positions in the Reagan and Nixon administrations. His articles have appeared in Commentary, The Public Interest, the Harvard Law Review, the Wall Street Journal, and the American Enterprise.

Reuel Marc Gerecht is a resident fellow at AEI. He is the author of Know Thine Enemy: A Spy’s Journey into Revolutionary Iran (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997) and a chapter on Iran in Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American foreign and Defense Policy (Encounter Books, 2000). He is also a regular contributor to the Weekly Standard, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, among others. His previous positions include director of the Middle East Initiative for the Project for the New American Century and Middle Eastern specialist for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Congresswoman Jane Harman represents California’s 36th district and is a ranking member on the Intelligence Committee for the 108th Congress. She is a frequent guest on national news programs, including Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and Nightline. Her written commentaries have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and other major publications. Earlier in her career, she served as special counsel to the Defense Department, deputy cabinet secretary for President Carter, and chief counsel and staff director of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights.

R. James Woolsey is a vice president and officer in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Global Assurance practice located in McLean, Virginia. During his twelve years in the U.S. government, he has served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, under secretary of the Navy, and general counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services. He was appointed delegate-at-large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and the Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST) and was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I).