Mr. Henry D. Sokolski

Executive Director, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

Henry D. Sokolski is the Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, a Washington-based nonprofit organization founded in l994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues for academics, policy makers, and the media.

He served from 1989 to 1993 as Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Paul Wolfowitz and received the Secretary of Defense's Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Prior to his appointment to this post, Mr. Sokolski worked in the Secretary’s Office of Net Assessment on proliferation issues.

In addition to his Executive Branch service, Mr. Sokolski served from 1984 through 1988 as Senior Military Legislative Aide to Senator Dan Quayle and as Special Assistant on Nuclear Energy Matters to Senator Gordon Humphrey from 1982 through 1983. Mr. Sokolski also served as a consultant on proliferation issues to the intelligence community’s National Intelligence Council.

After his work in the Pentagon, Mr. Sokolski received a Congressional appointment to the Deutch Proliferation Commission, which completed its report in July of 1999. He also served as a member of The Central Intelligence Agency’s Senior Advisory Panel from 1995 to 1996.

Mr. Sokolski has authored and edited a number of works on proliferation related issues including, Best of Intentions: America’s Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001), Beyond Nunn-Lugar: Curbing the Next Wave of Weapons Proliferation Threats from Russia (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2002); 21st Century Weapons Proliferation: Are We Ready? (London: Frank Cass, 2001); Planning for a Peaceful Korea (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2001); Prevailing in A Well Armed World (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2000) and Fighting Proliferation (Maxwell AFB: Air University Press, 1996).

Mr. Sokolski has been a resident fellow at the National Institute for Public Policy, the Heritage Foundation, and the Hoover Institution. He currently serves as an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics in Washington and has taught courses at the University of Chicago, Rosary College, and Loyola University. Mr. Sokolski attended the U. of Southern California and Pomona College and received his graduate education at the University of Chicago.