- Sandy Berger
Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger (born October 28, 1945) served as the 19th United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. In his position, he helped to formulate the foreign policy of the Clinton Administration. During this time he advised the President regarding the Khobar Towers bombing, Operation Desert Fox and other actions against Iraq, the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, …
- Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter (born John Craig Venter October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City) is an American biologist and businessman.
- Albert Calland
Vice Admiral Albert M. Calland, III was the Deputy Director for Strategic Operational Planning at the National Counterterrorism Center. He also previously served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from July 2005 to July 2006. Calland is a 1974 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a 1996 graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
- Sam Watson
Sam Watson (b. 1952) is an Australian Aboriginal activist and a socialist politician. He has run as the candidate of the Socialist Alliance in the 2004 election in Queensland. Watson teaches a course in Black Australian Literature at the University of Queensland. He is also a writer and a filmmaker. He has received honours for his 1990 novel "The Kadaitcha Sung" and acclaim for his 1995 film "Black Man Down".
- Weldon L. Kennedy
Weldon Lynn Kennedy (born September 12, 1938) was a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and served for 33 years. He is known for his involvement in the Atlanta Prison Riots and the Oklahoma City Bombing. He retired as the FBI's No. 2 in command, Deputy Director in 1997.
- Uta Frith
Uta Frith is a leading developmental psychologist working at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College, London. She has published many papers on autism and dyslexia, as well as several books. Her most well known book is 'Autism: Explaining the Enigma' which provides an introduction to the cognitive neuroscience of autism.
- Coit D. Blacker
Dr. Coit Dennis Blacker served as Special Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council under National Security Advisor Anthony Lake during the Clinton administration. He is the current director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and a Study Group Member of the National Commission on Terrorism.
- Floyd I. Clarke
Floyd I. Clarke was a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States. Floyd I. Clarke was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he obtained a bachelor of arts and later a law degree. He joined the FBI as a Special Agent in 1964, working in the Birmingham, Boston, Philadelphia, and Kansas City Divisions as well as at FBI Headquarters.
- Michele Mosca
Michele Mosca is co-founder and deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, researcher and founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and associate professor of mathematics at St. Jerome's University. He has held a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Computation since January 2002, and has been a scholar for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research since September 2003.
- William Harding Jackson
William Harding Jackson (1901 - 1971) was a U.S. civilian administrator. He served as Deputy Director of the CIA, and as the United States National Security Advisor in 1956.
- Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. A prolific writer, his most well-known book is The End of History and the Last Man (1992), in which he argued that the progression of human history as a struggle between ideologies is largely at an end, with the world settling on liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
- Victoria Nuland
Ambassador Nuland was United States Deputy Permanent Representative to NATO in Brussels, Belgium from July 2000 to July 2003. There she was instrumental in NATO's historic invocation of Article 5 of its charter - "an attack on one ally is an attack on all" - in support of the U.S. after September 11, 2001.
- Wendy Piatt
Wendy Piatt is the Director General of The Russell Group of Universities. Educated at King's College, London and Lincoln College, Oxford, she went on to work for the left-wing think-tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research. She then joined the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, rising to the post of Deputy Director. In January 2007, she was appointed Director General of The Russell Group.
- Dennis B. Ross
Dennis Ross Ross is a distinguished fellow and counselor for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. For more than twelve years, Ross played the leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and in dealing directly with the the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was this country's point man on the peace process in both the Bush and Clinton administrations.
- Rick Tsai
Dr. Rick Tsai was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (TSMC) in 2005, after serving as president and chief operating officer. Prior to his post as chief operations officer, he served as TSMC vice president of worldwide marketing and sales. Before that, Dr. Tsai served two terms as executive vice president of operations. Between these two terms Dr. Tsai spent a short time away from TSMC, …
- John Shalikashvili
John's father fought with the Nazis during World War II . He was originally part of the Georgian Brigade, a group of expatriates fighting to take Georgia from the Soviets . But the unit was later transferred to the SS and positioned in Normandy . Dimitri was eventually captured by the British and held in a prisoner of war camp until after the war. A collection of Dimitri Shalikashvili 's writings are on deposit at the Hoover Institution .
- John Birt Baron Birt
John Birt, Baron Birt (born 10 December 1944), served as the Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 1992 to 2000, having previously been deputy director-general from 1987.
- Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin was an African-American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and earlier and principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He counseled Martin Luther King, Jr. on the techniques of nonviolent resistance. Rustin was openly gay and advocated on behalf of gay and lesbian causes in the latter part of his career.
- Larry C. Napper
Napper served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Latvia from 1995-98. During his tenure, Latvia made decisive strides toward membership in NATO and the EU. From 1998-2001, Ambassador Napper was coordinator for U.S. assistance to Central Europe and the Balkans, administering a $600 million budget for peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction.
- Herb Green
George Herbert "Herb" Green (1916-2001) was the doctor at the centre of the Cartwright Inquiry, a commission set up to examine claims that he had been illegally experimenting on patients without their consent between 1966 and 1987. The inquiry found that he had conducted a study between 1966 and 1987 in which the cases of women with major cervical abnormalities were followed without definitive treatment, …
- Alan O. Trounson
Professor Alan Trounson MSc PhD Alan Trounson is professor of stem cell sciences and director, Monash immunology and stem cell laboratories at Monash University, and the founder and executive vice chairman of the National Biotechnology Centre of Excellence Australian Stem Cell Centre, as well as global scientific strategy advisor. Professor Trounson graduated from the University of New South Wales in 1971 with an MSc in wool and pastoral sciences.
- Stephen D. Krasner
Stephen Krasner 's research interests include market failure and distributional conflict in international political economy and the historical practices of sovereignty, especially with regard to domestic autonomy, state building and non-intervention. In 2002 he served as Director for Governance and Development at the National Security Council where he worked on the Millennium Challenge Account, a new foreign assistance program.
- Haleh Esfandiari
Haleh Esfandiari is director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she had earlier been a fellow in 1995-96. Ms. Esfandiari has worked as a journalist in Iran and taught at the College of Mass Communication in Tehran. She served as deputy secretary general of the Women's Organization of Iran and was the deputy director of a foundation at which she was responsible for the activities of several museums and art and cultural centers.
- Molly Corbett Broad
Director since 2007. A leading spokesperson for American higher education, Molly Corbett Broad became the twelfth president of the American Council on Education (ACE) on May 1, 2008. She is the first woman to lead the organization since its founding in 1918. Ms. Broad came to ACE from the University of North Carolina (UNC), where she served as president from 1997 to 2006, leading UNC through a period of unprecedented enrollment growth.
- Marcus Sachs
Marcus H. Sachs directs the Washington operations of SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory. He was born in Lahore, Pakistan on October 4 1959 and moved to Tallahassee, Florida with his parents and younger brother in 1961. He grew up in Tallahassee and graduated from Godby High School in 1977.
- Marc Grossman
Marc Grossman was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 23, 2001 and sworn in as Under Secretary for Political Affairs on March 26, 2001. Ambassador Grossman has been a career Foreign Service Officer since 1976. He was Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources, from June 2000 to February 2001, and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, from August 1997 to May 2000. From November 1994 to June 1997, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Turkey.
- Sidney Drell
Sidney Drell is professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. James Goodby was an adviser to President Clinton on the CTBT and is diplomat-in-residence at Stanford University. Raymond Jeanloz is a professor of Earth and planetary science at the University of California at Berkeley. Robert Peurifoy was a vice president of Sandia National Laboratories.
- John van der Post
- Alan Turing
This short on-line biography of Alan Turing is based on the entry I wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995. The eight parts correspond roughly to the eight sections of my full biography Alan Turing : the enigma. There are no hyperlinks in the text. For links and for more images, go to the corresponding page of the Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook. Part 8 - Alan Turing 's Crisis
- Peter Salovey
Peter Salovey is a psychologist currently working at Yale University. He is renowned for his work on emotional intelligence. In 2004, he succeeded Richard H. Brodhead as the dean of Yale College.
- Elena Kagan
Kagan, the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law, is currently the 11th Dean of Harvard Law School. Kagan first came to Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1999 and became Professor of Law in 2001. She has taught administrative law, constitutional law, civil procedure, and seminars on issues involving the separation of powers. She was appointed Dean of the Law School in 2003.
- John Marshall Evans
John Evans was confirmed by the Senate on June 25, 2004 and was sworn-in as the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia on August 11, 2004. He presented his credentials to President Kocharian on September 4, 2004. A native of Williamsburg, Virginia, Mr. Evans studied Russian history at Yale (B.A., 1970) and Columbia, where he began a Ph.D. before joining the Foreign Service.
- Gerald Schatten
Dr. Gerald Schatten is a Professor and Vice Chair of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a Deputy Director at Magee-Womens Research Institute and Director of the Pittsburgh Development Center. He also has appointments in Cell Biology, Physiology and serves as Director of the Division of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
- Judith Heumann
As Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) since June 1993, Judith E. Heumann and her 350-person staff manage the Office of Special Education Programs, the Rehabilitation Services Administration, and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, which have a combined budget of over $5.5 billion.
- Daniel C. Kurtzer
Daniel Kurtzer , a Career-Minister in the Senior Foreign Service until 2005, has been intimately involved in Middle East peace negotiations and the formulation of U.S. policy in the Middle East for almost three decades.
- Ronald E. Neumann
Ronald E. Neumann (b. 1945) is the current United States Ambassador to Afghanistan and previously served as ambassador to Algeria (1994-1997), and Bahrain (2001-2004). He is the son of former ambassador Robert G. Neumann and traveled extensively after college in Afghanistan while his father was ambassador there. He pronounces his last name Newmann (without the Germanic "neu") and his name is sometimes seen spelled that way. Mr.
- Hui Liangyu
Hui Liangyu is vice premier in charge of China's rural and agricultural policies and serves as a member of the 17th CCP Central Committee Politburo. As a former leader of both wealthy Jiangsu and poor Anhui, Hui is experienced with China's wide income disparities. Hui is trained in agricultural economics. Born in 1944 in Yushu County, Jilin, Hui is of the Hui minority.
- Margaret Catley-Carlson
Margaret Catley-Carlson is Chair, Director or advisor to many international organizations: The Global Water Partnership (Chair), The Water Resources Advisory Committee for Suez: Paris (Chair), the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa (Vice-Chair), Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International in the UK (Chair, Board of Governors).
- Donald Yamamoto
Donald Yamamoto is the current U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in November, 2006, and presented his credentials to Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi in Addis Ababa on December 6, 2006. He was formerly the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, and U.S. Ambassador to Djibouti.
- Mark Kleiman
Mark Kleiman is Professor of Public Policy in the UCLA School of Public Affairs. He teaches courses on methods of policy analysis and on drug abuse and crime control policy. He is the author of Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control and Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results , and is now at work on When Brute Force Fails: Strategy for Crime Contro l. He edits the Drug Policy Analysis Bulletin .