Leadership & Staff
Geoffrey Kemp
Director of Regional Security Programs at the Center for the National Interest
Ryan P Evans
Assistant Director of the Center for the National Interest
Paul J Saunders
Executive Director of the Center for the National Interest
Dimitri K Simes
Former President and CEO of the Center for the National Interest
Wallace Gregson Jr
Lieutenant General Wallace C. Gregson, Jr
Charles G Boyd
USAF general
Grover Norquist
anti-tax activist and power broker
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Director
Zalmay Khalilzad
Ambassador to the UN and Iraq under George W Bush; neoconservative leader
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Director
Dov Zakheim
Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (2001-2004); Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Planning and Resources (1985-1987)
Dimitri K Simes
Former President and CEO of the Center for the National Interest
Eugene Kistler Lawson
U.S.-Russia Business Council; former deputy under secretary of labor for international affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor
Leslie H Gelb
President Emeritus: Council on Foreign Relations
Robert F Ellsworth
Former Republican congressman from Kansas
Henry A Kissinger
US Secretary of State 1973-1977