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Stephen Hadley

Stephen Hadley
(Chicago – 2 May, 2011)

From 2005-2009, Stephen Hadley served as National Security Advisor for President George W. Bush, serving as the principal White House foreign policy advisor and directing the National Security Council staff. In that capacity, he also ran the interagency national security policy development and execution process. Previous to that post, he served as Condoleezza Rice’s deputy at the National Security Council. In January of 2001, Hadley was appointed assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor. During President Bush’s first presidential campaign, he served as a senior foreign and defense policy advisor, and he also worked in the Bush-Cheney Transition.

Hadley served as the assistant secretary of defense for international security policy from 1989-1993. In that position, he had responsibility for defense policy toward NATO and Western Europe, on nuclear weapons and ballistic missile defense, and arms control. He also participated in policy issues involving export control and the use of space. Hadley previously served in a variety of other capacities in the defense and national security field, including serving from 1986-1987 as Counsel to the Special Review Board established by President Reagan to inquire into U.S. arms sales to Iran (the “Tower Commission”), as a member of the National Security Council staff under President Ford from 1974-1977, and as an analyst for the Comptroller of the Department of Defense from 1972-1974.

Hadley has been a member of the Department of Defense Policy Board, the National Security Advisory Panel to the director of central intelligence, and the board of trustees of Analytical Services, Inc. From 1993-2001, he was also a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea & Gardner and a principal in The Scowcroft Group, Inc., an international consulting firm. He received a BA degree from Cornell University and a law degree from Yale Law School.