Dr. R. Joseph DeSutter
Director, School for National Security Executive Education

Dr. R. Joseph DeSutter was selected in July 2001 to direct the School for National Security Executive Education. He retired as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force in 1994 after spending seven years in various national security policy-related positions in the White House. In the interim, he directed an international non-profit organization related to the Middle East and served as a self-employed consultant to the Defense Department on ballistic missile defense, the ABM Treaty, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, U.S. space policy, and the evolution of U.S. national security policy since World War II.

Dr. DeSutter was an Associate Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy from 1977 to 1979, and Director of American Politics for the Academy's Department of Political Science from 1982 to 1985. He served as an advisor to the Air Force leadership on the Air Staff's Arms Control and International Negotiations Division until the end of 1986. He was assigned to the office of President Reagan's Science Advisor in 1986, where he became Executive Director of both the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the White House Science Council. When the Reagan Administration left office in 1989, he joined Vice President Quayle's national security staff, where he bore responsibility for a broad variety of regional and operational issues.

Dr. DeSutter is a graduate of St. Louis University, with Masters Degrees from Texas Tech University and the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the latter. He has published articles on a variety of national security policy topics.