William Howard Taft IV is an attorney who has served in the United States government under several Republican administrations. He is the son of William Howard Taft III and the great-grandson of President William Howard Taft.
Stephen John Hadley is an American attorney and senior government official who served as the 21st United States National Security Advisor from 2005 to 2009. He served under President George W. Bush during the second term of his administration. Hadley was Deputy National Security Advisor during Bush's first term. Before that Hadley served in a variety of capacities in the defense and national security fields. He has also worked as a lawyer and consultant in private practice.
Nicholas Platt is an American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Pakistan,Philippines,Zambia,and as a high level diplomat in Canada,China,Hong Kong,and Japan. He is the former president of the Asia Society in New York City.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &Feld LLP, headquartered in Washington,D.C.,is an international law firm and the largest lobbying firm in the United States by revenue. With more than 900 attorneys,the firm has offices in Dallas,Washington,D.C.,San Antonio,Houston,Irvine,Fort Worth,New York,Moscow,Philadelphia,London,Los Angeles,San Francisco,Beijing,Hong Kong,Singapore,Abu Dhabi,Dubai,Frankfurt,Geneva and Hartford. Akin Gump is widely considered to be among the most profitable and prestigious firms in the nation and has been consistently ranked as among the top law firms in the United States by The American Lawyer. The firm is known for its influence on Capitol Hill and its representation of high-profile clients. With regard to compensation,Akin Gump is ranked by associates as one of the top 10 highest-paying law firms in the country.
William J. Luti served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Defense Policy and Strategy for the National Security Council in the administration of President George W. Bush.
Lino Gutiérrez is an American diplomat.
Cresencio "Cris" S. Arcos Jr. is an American diplomat.
James Franklin Collins is a former United States Ambassador to Russia. A career Foreign Service Officer in the State Department,he is a Russian specialist.
Debra L. Cagan is an American politician and a former U.S. foreign policy liaison. Her most notable public role was that of an adviser to former United States president George W. Bush.
Richard Lee Armitage is an American former diplomat and government official.
Geoffrey Scott Connor is an American public servant,attorney,historian,and businessman from the state of Texas. Connor has been an aide or appointee of several Republican Governors of Texas,including William P. Clements,Jr.,George W. Bush,and Rick Perry. Most notably,Connor served as the 104th Secretary of State of Texas under Governor Perry. Connor's tenure in this position was especially noteworthy for his efforts to build strong diplomatic and trade relationships between Texas and foreign countries.
Andrew J. Shapiro is an American attorney and diplomat who served as the 17th Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from 2009 to 2013. Shapiro is currently a Managing Director at Beacon Global Strategies LLC,which he founded with partners Jeremy Bash and Philippe Reines in 2013.
Roman Popadiuk is an American diplomat of Ukrainian descent. Popadiuk served as the first United States Ambassador to Ukraine under George H.W. Bush,from 1992 to 1993. From 2015 until 2017 he was a principal at Morgan,Lewis &Bockius LLP's subsidiary Morgan Lewis Consulting,and prior to 2015 he was the principal at Bingham Consulting. Since late 2018 Popadiuk has been the president of the Diplomacy Center Foundation which oversees the development of the National Museum of American Diplomacy.
James Warlick is a US diplomat,former United States Ambassador to Bulgaria.
Mary Burce Warlick was appointed Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency in May 2021. A former United States career diplomat,she served as the United States Ambassador to Serbia from January 2010 to September 2012,as the U.S. Consul General in Melbourne,Australia from October 2012 to July 2014,as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Energy Resources at the Department of State from August 2014 to September 2017,and as Acting Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs from January to September 2017.
In the United States,the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs or ASD (ISA) is the principal advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the United States Secretary of Defense on international security strategy and policy on issues of Department of Defense (DoD) interest related to the governments and defense establishments of the nations and international organizations of Europe,the Middle East,Africa,and the Western Hemisphere. The ASD (ISA) also oversees security cooperation programs and foreign military sales programs in these regions. Despite the broad title of the office,the ASD (ISA) does not develop policy related to Asia,the Pacific region,Latin America,or South America.
Michael A. Hammer is a United States career diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to Chile. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 6,2014 and sworn in on March 7,2014. He was nominated to be the next ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo by President Donald Trump on June 20,2018 and confirmed by the Senate on September 6,2018.
Derek Chollet is an American foreign policy advisor and author currently serving as the Counselor of the United States Department of State. Previously,Chollet was the Executive Vice President for security and defense policy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. From 2012 to 2015,Chollet was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs,where he managed U.S. defense policy involving Europe,NATO,the Middle East,Africa,and the Western Hemisphere for Secretaries Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel.
Lincoln Palmer Bloomfield (1920-2013) an American academic and expert on foreign affairs who served as a professor of political science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
