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Dr. Edwin J. Feulner
Dr.Edwin J. Feulner joined the Heritage Foundation as a founding Trustee in 1973 and has been President since 1977. Under Feulner's leadership the Heritage Foundation has grown from a nine-member staff to a 220-person organization occupying two office buildings near the U.S. Capitol. He was recognized in 1989 by President Ronald Reagan, who gave him the Presidential Citizens Medal. In 2007 he was named one of "Washington's 50 most powerful" in GQ magazine, and the London Telegraph named him one of the 100 most influential conservatives in America. Under his leadership, Heritage funded the first study that High Frontier, a space-based missile defense advocacy group, published on missile defense. This study led to President Reagan's plan for developing and using missile defense technology.
Dr. James Jay Carafano
James Carafano is the Assistant Director of The Heritage Foundation's Davis Institute for International Studies, and a Senior Research Fellow for defense and homeland security issues. Before joining Heritage he served 25 years in the US Army, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He has also served as an Assistant Professor at the US Military Academy, West Point, and is currently a visiting professor at the National Defense University and Georgetown University. Carafano testifies regularly before the US Congress on defense, intelligence, and homeland security issues, and has been published in newspapers nationwide, including The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The New York Post, and The Washington Times. Currently, he oversees 33-minutes.com, a site focused on Missile Defense Issues, and is spearheading Heritage's upcoming documentary, 33 Minutes: Protecting America in the New Missile Age.
Baker Spring
Baker Spring is the F.M. Kirby Research Fellow in National Security Policy at The Heritage Foundation, focusing on Defense Spending and Ballistic Missile Defense issues. In 2005 Spring develop "Nuclear Games," an exercise to show diplomats the realities of a world where nations, including rogue states, have nuclear weapons. The Games demonstrated how missile defense systems can strengthen stability and promote peace in such a world. Spring was also instrumental in defeating the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty earlier in the decade, opening the way for the US to develop a missile defense system. Spring began studying missile defense issues while researching the SALT II Treaty as a Republican National Committee intern in the 1970s.
Peter Brookes
Peter Brookes is the Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs and Chung Ju-Yung Fellow for Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation. His areas of expertise include foreign policy, national security, Asia, intelligence, terrorism, and missile defense. Brookes is also a columnist for the New York Post and a contributing editor for Armed Forces Journal magazine. He has over 300 published articles in over 50 newspapers, journals and magazines. Brookes testifies before the Senate and House of Representatives on foreign policy, defense, and intelligence issues and frequently makes public addresses both domestically and internationally. Before coming to Heritage, Brookes served in the George W. Bush administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs, and prior to that he served with the CIA's Directorate of Operations, the State Department at the United Nations, and in the private sector in the defense industry.
Ed Meese III
Edwin Meese is the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy, and Chairman for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation. Meese served as Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan, from February 1985 to August 1988. Prior to this, he held the position of Counsellor to the President, the senior position on the White House Staff, where he functioned as Reagan's chief policy adviser. In both of these roles, Meese was a member of Reagan's Cabinet and the National Security Council, and served with Reagan during the conception of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Meese joined Heritage in 1988, and has since been the author or co-author of three books. In 2006 Meese became a member of the Iraq Study Group, a special presidential commission dedicated to examining the best resolutions for America's involvement in Iraq.
Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
Lee Edwards is the Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at The Heritage Foundation. His areas of expertise include the history of the conservative movement and presidential history, and he is widely regarded as the chief historian of the American conservative movement. He has published more than 15 books about the leading individuals and institutions of American conservatism, including biographies of Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater and a history of The Heritage Foundation. Edwards wrote the first Reagan biography in 1967, and followed it in 2005 with a second biography to keep the memory of Reagan alive. Edwards' particular familiarity with Reagan provides him knowledge of missile defense, and the beginnings of missile defense work under Reagan. Edwards is an Adjunct Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America, and has been published in such major newspapers as The Boston Globe, Detroit News, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Bruce Klingner
Klinger is a Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center, specializing in issues related to Korea and Japan. Before joining Heritage, Klingner served as the primary Korea analyst at the Eurasia Group, a global political risk assistant firm. Prior to this, he spent 20 years in the intelligence community, working at the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency. He was the Deputy Chief of the Korea Issue Group in the CIA's directorate of intelligence where he was responsible for analyzing Korean political, military, economic and leadership issues for the president and other senior policy makers. He is a frequent panelist in policy forums around Washington, and his articles have appeared in the West in The Financial Times, USA Today, Washington Times, and Korea and World Affairs, and in the Far East, his articles have appeared in The Korea Herald, The Korea Times, Nikkei Weekly, and The Asia Times.
Dr. Kim Holmes
Dr. Kim Holmes is the Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, and is the Director of the think tank's Kathyrn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies. During his tenure with Heritage, which began in 1985, he was nominated by President Bush and served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. He served in this role from 2002-2005, and was responsible for US negotiations at the United Nations and 46 international organizations. Holmes has published numerous foreign policy products, including the 1995 Defending America: A Near and Long Term Plan to Deploy Missile Defenses, which laid the groundwork for US investment in missile defense and US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Holmes most recent book, Liberty's Best Hope: American Leadership for the 21st Century lays out a plan to ensure America continues its global leadership.
Senator Jim Talent
Jim Talent is a Distinguished Fellow in Government Relations at The Heritage Foundation, where he specializes in military readiness and welfare reform issues. Talent served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993-2001, and then served in the Senate from 2002-2007. While in the Senate, Talent was a member of the House Armed Services Committee, where he worked for policy to strengthen the armed forces and protect America's military from cuts in size and funding. He was also the Chair of the Sea Power Subcommittee for four years. As a fellow at The Heritage Foundation, Talent regularly publishes policy proposals and speaks on issues such as military affairs and defense spending.
Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer is a weekly columnist for the Washington Post, writing on foreign and domestic policy and politics. Krauthammer began writing a weekly column for The Post in 1985. Formerly a resident and then chief resident in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, he joined The New Republic as a writer and editor in 1981. His writing regularly appears in such publications as Time, The Weekly Standard and The New Republic. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for essays and criticism in 1984, the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1987 and the Bradley Prize in 2004.
