AMBASSADOR ROBERT E. HUNTER 

Ambassador Hunter is Senior Advisor at the RAND Corporation in Washington. From 1993 to 1998, he served as U.S. Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council (Ambassador to NATO), and also represented the U.S. to the Western European Union.  Prior to his appointment to NATO, Ambassador Hunter was Vice President for International Politics and Director of European Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., which he joined as Senior Fellow in both European and Middle East Studies. He also served as Special Advisor on Lebanon to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and Lead Consultant to the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America. He was co-founder and Director for Foreign Policy/National Security of the Center for National Policy.  In the 1992 presidential campaign, he was a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Governor Bill Clinton, and performed a similar role for Vice President Walter Mondale (1981-1984) and Majority Leader Richard Gephardt (1988). Throughout the Carter Administration, he served on the National Security Council staff, as Director of West European Affairs and then as Director of Middle East Affairs. Earlier, he was Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Senior Fellow at the Overseas Development Council, Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London (1967, 1968-1969), and foreign and domestic policy advisor to Vice President Hubert Humphrey.  He served on the White House staff (health, education, welfare, labor) in the Johnson Administration and in the Navy Department on the Polaris Project.  Ambassador Hunter was educated at Wesleyan University with a BA (Phi Beta Kappa) and the London School of Economics (Ph.D. in International Relations, Fulbright Scholar). He was taught at the LSE, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins SAIS, the Washington College (Louis L. Goldstein Chair in Public Policy). He has served on the boards of the Atlantic Council, Wesleyan University, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria, and the National Association for the Southern Poor.  Among his many publications (more than 700), Ambassador Hunter is author of Security in Europe, Presidential Control of Foreign Policy, NATO: The Next Generation (editor), Grand Strategy for the West (co-editor), The Soviet Dilemma in the Middle East, and Organizing for National Security. He has also written for Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Current History, The Washington Quarterly (also editorial board), SAIS Review, Survival, and many other journals; plus many chapters in books and "op­ed" articles in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Defense News, and many other newspapers. During the Persian Gulf War, he was a daily commentator in the International Herald Tribune.