DR. RONALD F. LEHMAN II
Dr. Lehman is the Director of the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and also Chairman of the Governing Board of the International Science and Technology Center. He serves on the Department of Defense Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, the Defense Science Board Task Forces on Globalization and Security and on Tritium, and on the National Research Council's Committee on Science, Technology, and Health Aspects of the Foreign Policy Agenda of the United States. In 1995, President Clinton appointed him to the five-member President's Advisory Board on Arms Proliferation Policy. From 1989 to 1993, he was Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Previously, he served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, Department of State's U.S. Chief Negotiator on Strategic Offensive Arms (START 1), and Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. He has also served as a Senior Director at the National Security Council, Senior Professional Staff of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, and as a district adviser in Vietnam commissioned in the United States Army Military Intelligence Branch. At ACDA, Dr. Lehman was a member of the National Space Council and the Export Administration Review Board (EARB) and was on the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace. He headed the U.S. Delegations to the Fourth Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Third Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention, and also served as Deputy Head of Delegation for the Paris signing of the Chemical Weapons Convention. He received his BA from Claremont McKenna College and his PhD. from the Claremont Graduate University.