The National Security Roundtable

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Former Under Secretary of Defense, Douglas J. Feith is currently a Professor and Distinguished Practitioner in National Security Policy at Georgetown University, as well as a Belfer Center Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Prior to that, Mr. Feith served from July 2001 until August 2005 as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, where he helped devise the U.S. government's strategy for the war on terrorism and contributed to policy making for the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns.

As Under Secretary of Defense, Mr. Feith’s also managed the Defense Department's international relations and represented the Department in interagency policy making. He helped plan the worldwide changes in the U.S. defense posture, develop new U.S. strategic partnerships with India and Pakistan, promote NATO enlargement and reform and craft U.S. policy toward China. Mr. Feith advised President Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld on the range of national security issues, including the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran, the counter-insurgency in Colombia and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Prior to his appointment as Under Secretary of Defense, Mr. Feith was managing partner for fifteen years at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Feith & Zell, P.C. He served in the Reagan Administration as a Middle East specialist for the National Security Council, as well as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy.

Mr. Feith received the Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Defense Department's highest civilian award, after each one of his Pentagon tours. His writings on foreign and defense affairs have appeared in books and publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Commentary, The New Republic and elsewhere. Mr. Feith holds a J.D. (magna cum laude) from the Georgetown University Law Center and an A.B. (magna cum laude) from Harvard College.

 * In appreciation for the valor and sacrifice of the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces, Mr. Feith has donated all his revenues from the book to a charitable foundation, which will use the funds exclusively for the benefit of veterans and their families.