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