Center for The National Interest

non-partisan public policy institution

The Center for the National Interest is a non-partisan public policy institution established by former President Richard Nixon. Its current programs focus on energy security and climate change, immigration and national security, and U.S. relations with China, Japan, Mexico, and Russia. The Center also publishes the bimonthly foreign affairs magazine The National Interest. The Center is supported by foundation, corporate and individual donors as well as by an endowment

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Leadership & Staff

Geoffrey Kemp Director of Regional Security Programs at the Center for the National Interest

• Director of Regional Security Programs

Ryan P Evans Assistant Director of the Center for the National Interest

• Assistant Director

Paul J Saunders Executive Director of the Center for the National Interest

• Executive Director

Dimitri Simes Former President and CEO of the Center for the National Interest

• President and CEO

Wallace Gregson Jr Lieutenant General Wallace C. Gregson, Jr

• Senior Director, China and the Pacific

Charles G Boyd USAF general

• Distinguished National Security Fellow

Grover Norquist anti-tax activist and power broker

• Director

Drew Guff Siguler Guff & Company, LP

• Director

Zalmay Khalilzad Ambassador to the UN and Iraq under George W Bush; neoconservative leader

• Director

Board Members

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Julie Nixon Eisenhower

• Board Member

Dov Zakheim Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (2001-2004); Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Planning and Resources (1985-1987)

• Vice Chairman

John H Taylor

• Board Member

Dimitri Simes Former President and CEO of the Center for the National Interest

• Board Member

Lionel H Olmer

• Board Member

Eugene Kistler Lawson U.S.-Russia Business Council; former deputy under secretary of labor for international affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor

• Board Member

Leslie H Gelb President Emeritus: Council on Foreign Relations

• Board Member

Robert F Ellsworth Former Republican congressman from Kansas

• Board Member

Tricia Nixon Cox

• Board Member

Henry A Kissinger US Secretary of State 1973-1977

• Honorary Chairman

Services & Transactions

Maria Butina Founder of Russian gun rights organization Right to Bear Arms. convicted of federal charges, deported to Russia

• author (Jun 12 '15→?)

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Types	Organization, Other Not-for-Profit, Policy/Think Tank
Start date	Jan 20 '94
Aliases	Center for the National Interest (CFNI), Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, The Nixon Center
Country	United States

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