Between 1972 and 1977,Danzig taught contract law at Stanford and Harvard Universities. He was awarded a Prize Fellowship of the Harvard Society of Fellows,and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. From 1977 to 1981,he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD),first as a Deputy Assistant Secretary and then as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower,Reserve Affairs and Logistics. In 1981,he was awarded the Defense Distinguished Public Service Award.
Danzig gives his keynote speech at the Red Herring annual innovation conference,in Carlsbad,California,on October 30,2000.
Washington,D.C. years
Between 1977 and 1981,Danzig served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and then as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manpower,Reserve Affairs,and Logistics.
From 1981 to 1993,Danzig was a partner in the Washington,D.C.,office of the international law firm Latham &Watkins. He served as deputy chair of the firm's International Practice Group,and also as director of its Japan Group. He was also a director of the National Semiconductor Corporation,a trustee of Reed College,and interim director of litigation and then vice chairman of the International Human Rights Law Group. During this time,Danzig was co-author,with the distinguished policy analyst Peter Szanton,of the book,National Service:What Would It Mean? A decade before,Szanton had been head of the New York City-RAND Institute,a joint venture of the City and the RAND Corporation when Danzig came to that office as a law student. The book which Danzig and Szanton co-authored helped shape America's current civilian National Service system.[3]
Danzig served as the Under Secretary of the Navy from November 1993 to May 1997. In 1994,Danzig was elected as a fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration.[4] Later he was sworn in as the 71st Secretary of the Navy on November 16,1998. In the period between these two jobs,he and his wife,Andrea,lived in Asia and Europe while Danzig served as a Traveling Fellow of the Center for International Political Economy and as an adjunct professor at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.[3]
Later career
In 2007 and 2008,Danzig worked for Senator Obama's campaign as an advisor on national security issues.[2]
Danzig has been a director of National Semiconductor Corporation and Human Genome Sciences Corporation.[2]
In 2014,Danzig delivered the fifth Sloan Foundation Cyber Security Lecture at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering,based on his publication "Surviving on a Diet of Poisoned Fruit:Reducing the National Security Risks of America's Cyber Dependencies".[5]
↑"Nominations Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, First Session, 103d Congress: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate". Vol.103, no.414. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1994. pp.1523–1526. ISBN978-0-16-043611-6.
123"Richard J. Danzig". www.cnas.org. Center of a New American Security. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
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