Advisory Board
Jean-Charles Brisard was appointed Knight of the National Order of Merit on the (French) presidential reserve, on December 2008. He is an international consultant and expert on terrorism and terrorism financing. He authored the first and most exhaustive study ever written on the financial network of the Bin Laden organization, "The economic environment of Osama Ben Laden". His report was written for the French intelligence community and published by the French National Assembly in 2001. He testified on his work before the US Congress Joint Inquiry into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, before the US Senate Banking Committee and reported on terrorism financing for the President of the UN Security Council. He served as an expert or witness in prosecutions of terrorism financing and money laundering cases in France, Switzerland, the UK and the United States. He provides training to the French authorities on terrorism and terrorism financing.Since June 2002, he is serving as lead investigator for lawyers representing over 6,500 family members of the 9/11 victims in the course of civil actions brought before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the terrorists, terrorist states and the sponsors of terrorism, including individuals, banks, corporations and Islamic charities. Jean-Charles Brisard has served as special adviser to the Vice President of Vivendi Universal for corporate and business intelligence after serving as director of business intelligence and international legal counsel for international corporations. He held governmental positions in France as counsel to the former Chief Antiterrorism Prosecutor and adviser to the French Minister of Interior and French Prime Minister. He also served as advisor to a US Senator. Jean-Charles Brisard authored Forbidden Truth: U.S.-taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy And The Failed Hunt For Bin Laden in 2001 and Zarqawi, The New Face of Al-Qaeda in 2005. His analysis regularly appears in international TV and newspapers, including NBC, CNN, Fox News, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Le Monde and Le Figaro. Jean-Charles Brisard earns a Phd in Public International Law of the Paris University of Law, an Md in International and European Law, a diploma in Comparative Law from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, and he studied Diplomacy at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Brigadier General (ret.) Yosef Kuperwasser is VP of global CST, a security consulting company. He was the head of the Analysis and Production Division of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Directorate of Military Intelligence (Aman) for five years until June 2006. In this capacity he was responsible for preparing Israel's national intelligence assessments and for early warning. General Kuperwaser served as Assistant Defense Attaché for Intelligence at the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC (1992-4) and as the Intelligence Officer of the IDF Central Command (1998-2001). During his military service he had been involved in shaping the way Israel has coped with the threat of terror and understood regional developments and in sharing those understandings with U.S. and other foreign officials. Between October 2006 and January 2007, General Kuperwasser was the Andrea and Charles Bronfman visiting fellow in the Saban center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution. General Kuperwasser has a B.A. in Arabic language and literature from Haifa University and an M.A. in Economics from Tel Aviv University. 
Dr. Gal Luft is executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) a Washington based think tank focused on energy security and co-founder of the Set America Free Coalition, an alliance of national security, environmental, labor and religious groups promoting ways to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. He specializes in strategy, geopolitics, terrorism, energy security and economic warfare. Newsweek Magazine called him a “tireless and independent advocate of energy security,” the business magazine Poder called him "one of the most recognizable figures in modern energy and security issues," and Esquire Magazine included him in its 2007 list of America's Best and Brightest. Dr. Luft has published numerous studies and articles on security and energy issues in various newspapers and publications such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The American Interest, Commentary Magazine, Middle East Quarterly, LA Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He appears frequently in the media and consults to various think tanks and news organizations worldwide. Dr. Luft testified before committees of the U.S. Congress, including Senate Foreign Relations, House International Relations, House Science and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is a board member of the Center for Energy Defence and a member of the Society of Industry Leaders, the Committee on the Present Danger and other non-profit groups. He holds degrees in international relations, international economics, Middle East studies and strategic studies and a doctorate in strategic studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS,) Johns Hopkins University.
Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney, USAF (Ret.) is the founder of Government Reform Through Technology, a consulting
firm that works with high-tech companies. GRTT conducts business with federal, state, city and local governments to help
them introduce advanced technology into the public sector.
Prior to this, he was the CEO and the president of Business Executives for National Security, a national, nonpartisan
organization of business and professional leaders.
For 35 years, General McInerney served as a pilot, commander, and strategic planner in the U.S. Air Force.
He retired from military service as Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force and Director of the Defense Performance
Review, reporting to the Secretary of Defense. He led the Pentagon's "reinventing government" effort, visiting more than
100 leading-edge commercial companies to assimilate their ideas about business re-engineering.
General McInerney graduated from the United States Military Academy and earned a Master's degree in international relations
from George Washington University. He also attended the Armed Forces Staff College and National War College. Gen. McInerney,
is also Military commentator of FOX NEWS, and author of Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror.
Ana Palacio is currently member of the Spanish Parliament, where she chairs the Joint Committee of
the two Houses for European Affairs. She served as Foreign Minister under Prime Minister José María Aznar (2002-2004).
During her tenure as Foreign Minister, Ana Palacio focused on three priority policy areas: The European construction
(she was member of the European convention and the Convention’s Praesidum); strengthening transatlantic relations with
the Americas and with the United States in particular; the fight against terrorism and strengthening EU ties with the
Mediterranean and the Middle East. As member of the European Parliament during the 4th (1994-1999) and 5th (1999-2002)
legislatures, she chaired the Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee and the Justice and Home Affairs Committee
as well as the Conference of Committee Chairmen, the Parliament’s most senior body for the coordination of its legislative
work. She has held the most senior positions (First Vice President and President elect) in the governing body of European
lawyers (CCBE), and the Academy of European Law (ERA). She currently works as a consultant for the World Bank reporting
for the Presidency on the High Level Commission for Legal Empowerment of the Poor. She is a member of the Board of Trustees
of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, as well as member of the board of different institutions, among others: IAB of
the Council on Foreign Relations, IE, FAES, FRIDE, and CSIS Initiative for Renewed Transatlantic Partnership, Transatlantic
Policy Network (TNP) Advisory Committee. She holds degrees in Law, Political Science and Sociology. Her performance in her
studies merited the Award for Academic Achievement by the Complutense University (Spain).
Richard Perle is Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he researches defense,
intelligence, national security, Europe, the Middle East, and the Russian region. He is-a-former assistant secretary of
defense for international security policy. He is former Member, of the Defense Policy Board, Department of Defense;
1987-2004 and Chairman, 2001-2003; Producer, PBS, The Gulf Crisis: The Road to War, 1992; Assistant secretary of defense
for international security policy, 1981-1987, and U.S. Senate staff, 1969-1980. He received his B.A. From the University
of Southern California, and M.A., in political science, from Princeton University. His most recent books include: An End
to Evil, Present Dangers, and Hard Line.
Dmitry Radyshevsky received his BA in journalism from Moscow State University, his Master of Theological
Studies degree from Harvard University and his PhD from the Hebrew University (Jerusalem).
Born in Moscow, Mr. Radyshevsky worked as a religion writer for Moscow News and a senior foreign correspondent for The Jerusalem Report. After being invited in 1991 to US as a visiting journalist for an internship with TIME Magazine, Mr. Radyshevsky served as an Assistant Editor of the Russian project at New York Times, and then, for six years, was the New York Bureau Chief of Moscow News. Having made Aliyah (repatriation)from US to Israel in 1999, Mr. Radyshevsky headed the The Michael Cherney Foundation to Aid Terror Victims (www.cherfund.org) and serves as a CEO of The Jerusalem Summit, an international forum, established in 2003 (www.jerusalemsummit.org) Dr. Radyshevsky is an author of several fiction and non-fiction books. His latest are: "Universal Zionism" (Ivrus, Israel, 2006), "The Jerusalem Alternative" (Balfour Books, 2005), "Babylon and Jerusalem: the Middle East Conflict in the Light of the Bible" (MCF, Tel-Aviv, 2003), "Mantra" (Penguin Putnam Inc., New York, 2002), "Dolphinarium: Terror Targets the Young" (MCF, Tel-Aviv, 2002). Nina Rosenwald is Co-Chair of the Board of American Securities Holding Corporation, a private company overseeing investment activities in publicly-traded securities, as well as traditional investment and merchant banking. She is Chairman of the Board of the Middle East Media and Research Institute and Vice President of the Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, Human Rights in China, and Washington Institute for Near East Policy. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Regents for the Center for Security Policy, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting, New York Academy of Sciences, United Jewish Appeal/Federation, New York Psychoanalytic Research and Development, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, and the The Founders Association. 
Leonard P. Shaykin is Chairman and CEO of Tapestry Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mr. Shaykin founded Shaykin & Co.,
LLC, a private investment and management company. Prior to founding Shaykin & Co., Mr. Shaykin was a managing partner of
Adler & Shaykin, an investment partnership organized to sponsor management leveraged buyouts. Prior to that, Mr. Shaykin
was Vice President, Director and a member of the Investment Committee of Citicorp Venture Capital, Ltd. and Citicorp
Capital Investors, Inc., the venture capital and equity investment subsidiaries of Citicorp and Citibank. He is currently
Chairman of the Board of the American Friends of Sheba Medical Center-Tel Hashomer, Israel, the largest medical center
in the Middle East, and a trustee of the Jackson Laboratories, a not-for-profit genetic research institute. Mr. Shaykin
received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Harvey M. Stone, Managing Partner of the Manhattan law firm Schlam Stone & Dolan LLP. Mr. Stone received a B.A. from Harvard College in 1966 (Classics and English). He then taught Classics in Rome, Italy. After graduating from the University of Virginia Law School in 1972, Mr. Stone served as an attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C. As a Justice Department attorney, he briefed and argued cases in the various federal courts of appeals and the United States Supreme Court, and frequently defended the U.S. military against constitutional challenges to its criminal justice system and practices. The Solicitor General designated him to argue for the United States in Middendorf v. Henry, 425 U.S. 25 (1975), a challenge to the validity of the Navy's Summary Court Martial procedure. In 1977 Mr. Stone was appointed Chief of the Appeals Division, United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. In that capacity, he briefed and argued major cases in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. In March 1981, Mr. Stone left the United States Attorney's Office to co-found his law firm, which specializes in litigation. Mr. Stone has served as a Board member of St. Stephen's, an American preparatory school in Rome, since the mid-1980's, and has chaired its Governance Committee. 
Major General Paul E. Vallely, USA (Ret.) was born in DuBois, Pa. He retired in 1991 from the US Army as
Deputy Commanding General, US Army, Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. General Vallely graduated from the US Military Academy at
West Point and was commissioned in the Army in 1961 serving a distinguishing career of 32 years in the Army. He served in
many overseas theaters to include Europe and the Pacific Rim Countries as well as two combat tours in Vietnam. He has served
on US security assistance missions on civilian-military relations to Europe, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Central
America with in-country experience in Indonesia, Columbia, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala.
General Vallely is a graduate of the Infantry School, Ranger and Airborne Schools, Jumpmaster School, the Command and General Staff School, The Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Army War College. His combat service in Vietnam included positions as infantry company commander, intelligence officer, operations officer, military advisor and aide-de-camp. He has over fifteen (15) years experience in Special Operations, Psychological and Civil-Military Operations. He was one of the first nominees for Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations under President Reagan. From 1982-1986, he commanded the 351st Civil Affairs Command that included all Special Forces, Psychological Warfare and Civil Military units in the Western United States and Hawaii. He was the first President of the National Psychological Operations Association. His units participated in worldwide missions in Europe, Africa, Central America, Japan, Solomon Islands, Guam, Belgium, Korea and Thailand. He has served as a consultant to the Commanding General of the Special Operations Command as well as the DOD Anti-Drug and Counter -Terrorist Task Forces. He also designed and developed the Host-Nation Support Program in the Pacific for DOD and the State Department. Most recently, he has in-country security assistance - experience in El Salvador, Columbia and Indonesia in the development of civil-military relations interfacing with senior level military and civilian leadership. General Vallely is a military analyst for FOX News Channel and is a guest on many nationally syndicated radio talk shows. He is also a guest lecturer on the War on Terror. He is the Military Committee Chairman for the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC. He has just co-authored a book entitled Endgame: Blueprint for Victory for Winning the War on Terror. 
William R. Van Cleave is Chair of the Defense and Strategic Studies Department at Southwest
Missouri State University (SMSU). He is an Adviser to the Center for Security Policy; A Study member at the National
Institute for Public Policy; Former research fellow at Hoover Institution; Member of the Board of the Committee on the
Present Danger; and a Member of the Team B Strategic Objectives Panel. Prof. Van Cleave received his B.A. in political
science from California State University, and his m.A. And Ph.D. From Claremont Graduate School. He is a Former Member
of the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; Former Special Assistant to the Secretary for Strategic
Policy and Planning, U.S. Department of Defense; Former Member of Team B Strategic Objectives Panel (late 1970s); Former
Chairman-Designate of the General Advisory Committee of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency: Former Senior Advisor
and Defense Policy Coordinator (1979-1981), Office of the President; Former Director of the U.S. Department of Defense
Transition Team, and Former Officer at the U.S. Marine Corps.
R. James Woolsey joined Booz Allen Hamilton in July 2002 as a Vice President and officer in the firm’s Global Resilience practice, located in McLean, Virginia. Previously Mr. Woolsey served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations. He was also previously a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC, where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
During his 12 years of government service Mr. Woolsey was: Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995; Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989–1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977–1979; and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970–1973. He was also appointed by the President as Delegate at Large to the U.S.–Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST), and served in that capacity on a part-time basis in Geneva, Switzerland, 1983–1986. As an officer in the U.S. Army, he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969–1970. Mr. Woolsey is currently Co-Chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a Trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. He also serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy. Previously, he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian Institution, and a trustee of Stanford University, The Goldwater Scholarship Foundation, and the Aerospace Corporation. He has also been a member of The National Commission on Terrorism, 1999–2000; The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998; The President’s Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989; The President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), 1985–1986; and The President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission), 1983. Mr. Woolsey is presently a managing director of the Homeland Security Fund of Paladin Capital Group. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board of Global Options LLC, and as a member of VantagePoint Management, Inc.’s Cleantech Advisory Council. He has served in the past as a member of boards of directors of a number of other publicly and privately held companies, generally in fields related to technology and security, including Martin Marietta; British Aerospace, Inc.; Fairchild Industries; Yurie Systems, Inc.; and USF&G. He also served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. Mr. Woolsey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attended Tulsa public schools, graduating from Tulsa Central High School. He received his B.A. degree from Stanford University (1963, With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1963–1965), and an LL.B from Yale Law School (1968, Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal). Mr. Woolsey is a frequent contributor of articles to major publications, and from time to time gives public speeches and media interviews on the subjects of foreign affairs, defense, energy, critical infrastructure protection and resilience, and intelligence. He is married to Suzanne Haley Woolsey and they have three sons, Robert, Daniel, and Benjamin. |
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