Hon. James R. Schlesinger, Chairman, Board of Trustees, The Mitre Corporation

Chairman

Chairman, Board of Trustees, The MITRE Corporation
Senior Advisor, Lehman Brothers
Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Chairman of the Executive Committee, The Nixon Center

Current Activities

Consultant, U. S. Department of Defense
Member, Defense Policy Board
Commission on National Security/21st Century
Panel to Assess the Reliability, Safety, and Security of the United States Nuclear Stockpile
Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, Department of Defense
Global Position System Independent Review Team, U.S. Air Force
Member, Advisory Committee, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy

Education and Academic Career

Harvard University: AB summa cum laude, (1950), AM (1952), Ph.D. (1956)
Assistant and Associate Professor, University of Virginia 1955-63

Prior Positions

Secretary of Energy, 1977-79
Assistant to the President, 1977
Secretary of Defense, 1973-75
Director of Central Intelligence, 1973
Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, 1973
Bureau of the Budget (later OMB), Acting Deputy Director, and Assistant Director, 1969-71
Director of Strategic Studies and Senior Staff Member, RAND Corporation, 1963-69
Consultant, U. S. Bureau of the Budget, 1967-68
Consultant, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1962-63
Academic Consultant, U.S. Naval War College, 1957

Other Activities

Publisher, The National Interest
Director, BNFL, Inc.
Director, Peabody Energy
Director, Sandia Corporation
Director, KFx Inc.
Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration
Member, American Academy of Diplomacy
Fellow, Phi Beta Kappa Fellows
Trustee, Atlantic Council, Center for Global Energy Studies, and Henry M. Jackson Foundation    

Served on the President's Commission on Strategic Forces, 1982-83; the Governor's Commission on Virginia's Future, 1982-84; President's Blue Ribbon Task Group On Nuclear Weapons Program Management (Vice Chairman), 1984-85

Publications

Editor, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, Regnery, 1995; America at Century's End, Columbia University Press, 1989; The Political Economy of National Security, Prager, 1960; and numerous articles.

Honors and Awards

National Security Medal
Five Department and Agency medals
Winner of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Distinguished Service Medal, the George     Catlett Marshall Medal, the H. H. Arnold Award, the Navy League's National Meritorious Citation, the Military Order of the World Wars Distinguished Service Award, the Jimmy Doolittle Award, and the William Oliver Baker Award.
Phi Beta Kappa, Senior Sixteen, 1949
Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowship, 1950-51
Eleven Honorary Degrees