Guiding Coalition

A coalition of distinguished Americans with extensive service in the public and private sectors guides this effort. These individuals provide a bipartisan assessment of the major questions the project will address, set the strategic direction, and will help communicate the ultimate findings and proposals of the Project to national-level constituencies and the public. The Guiding Coalition group meets every two months to review project progress and discuss objectives. The Guiding Coalition, which the project continues to expand, currently includes:

David M. Abshire	President and CEO Center for the Study of the Presidency
Norman R. Augustine	Retired Chairman and CEO Lockhead Martin Corporation
Dennis C. Blair	Former Commander-in-Chief U.S. Pacific Command
Robert D. Blackwill	Counselor Council on Foreign Relation
Charles G. Boyd	President and CEO Business Executives for National Security
Daniel W. Christman	Senior Vice President for International Affairs U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Ashton Carter	Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Wesley K. Clark	Former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Ruth A. David	CEO Analytic Services, Inc
Michèle Flournoy	President Center for a New American Security
Leon Fuerth	Project on Forward Engagement George Washington University
Newt Gingrich	Former Speaker U.S. House of Representatives
James L. Jones	President and CEO Institute for 21st Century Energy U.S. Chamber of Commerce
James R. Locher III	Executive Director Project on National Security Reform
James M. Loy	Former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security
Jessica Tuchman Mathews	President Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
John McLaughlin	Senior Fellow Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies The Johns Hopkins University
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.	Professor of International Relations John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University
Carlos Pascual	Vice President and Director Foreign Policy Studies The Brookings Institution
Thomas R. Pickering	Former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Brent Scowcroft	President and Founder The Scowcroft Group
Jeffrey H. Smith	Partner Arnold & Porter
James B. Steinberg	Dean Lyndon Johnson School of Public Affairs University of Texas at Austin
Kenneth R. Weinstein	CEO Hudson Institute

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