September 28, 2004
Speaker Biographies
John R. Bolton was sworn in as under secretary of state for arms control and international security on May 11, 2001. Before his appointment, Mr. Bolton was senior vice president of AEI. Mr. Bolton has spent many years of his career in public service. His previous positions include assistant secretary for international organization affairs at the Department of State, 1989–1993; assistant attorney general, Department of Justice, 1985–1989; assistant administrator for program and policy coordination, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1982–1983; and general counsel, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1981–1982. Mr. Bolton is also an attorney. From 1974 to 1981 he was an associate at the Washington office of Covington & Burling, where he returned as a member of the firm from 1983 to 1985, after public service at the U.S. Agency for International Development. From 1993 through 1999, he was a partner in the law firm of Lerner, Reed, Bolton & McManus.
Joseph Cirincione is a senior associate and director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. and the author of Deadly Arsenals: Tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction (Carnegie Endowment, 2002). He is a frequent commentator on security issues in the media and teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service. Mr. Cirincione worked for nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives on the professional staff of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations. He is the author of numerous articles on proliferation and weapons issues; a coauthor of Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security (June 2004), a co-author of WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implication (January 2004); the editor of Repairing the Regime (Routledge, 2000), and producer of the DVD The Proliferation Threat. He has held positions at the Henry L. Stimson Center, the U.S. Information Agency, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Mark A. Groombridge joined the Bush administration in October 2001 to serve as special assistant to John R. Bolton, the under secretary of state for arms control and international security, and is his principal adviser on Asian affairs. Before joining the administration, Mr. Groombridge was a research fellow at the Cato Institute and the Abramson Research Fellow at the AEI and associate director of its Asian Studies program. He is the author (with Claude E. Barfield) of Tiger by the Tail: China and the WTO (AEI Press, 1999). In addition, he has written widely on international issues in academic, legal, and public policy journals and newspapers. Mr. Groombridge has been featured on ABC News, CNN, the BBC, and Fox News. He has taught at Columbia, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins University.
Gary Milhollin has directed the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control since 1985. It operates in Washington, D.C. under the auspices of the University of Wisconsin, where Mr. Milhollin has been a member of the law faculty since 1976. He was a part–time administrative judge at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for fifteen years. He has also practiced international corporate law in New York and Paris and taught courses on nuclear arms proliferation at Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Milhollin has been a consultant on nuclear non-proliferation to the Department of Defense. He testifies frequently before Congress and his research often appears in publications such as the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and the Washington Post.
Joshua Muravchik is a resident scholar at AEI and a specialist in U.S. foreign policy and international relations. He has written extensively about democracy, human rights, the role of ideas and ideologies in international politics, and America’s role in the post–Cold War world. His articles appear frequently in Commentary, The New Republic, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal. His newest book, Covering the Intifada: How the Media Reported the Palestinian Uprising, was published in July 2003. He is also the author of Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism (2002); The Imperative of American Leadership (1996); Exporting Democracy: Fulfilling America’s Destiny (1991); News Coverage of the Sandinista Revolution (1988); and The Uncertain Crusade: Jimmy Carter and the Dilemmas of Human Rights Policy (1986). He serves as an adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute on Near East Policy and is an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics.
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