The Obama Transition National Security Policy Working Group was announcedtoday. More below
Obama Transition National Security Policy Working Group
http://change.gov/learn/policy_working_groups
The National Security Policy Working Group works closely with key experts and our agency review teams to help prepare the President-elect, Vice President-elect and senior national security appointees as they are named to make early decisions on critical national security issues.
James B. Steinberg is dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs (2006-present) and is a former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Clinton (1996-2000). His previous positions include vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution (2001-2005), director of the Policy Planning Staff (1994-1996) and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional Analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1993-1994) at the U.S. Department of State. He is the author of and contributor to many books on foreign policy and national security topics, including, most recently, with Kurt Campbell, Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Power.
Dr. Susan E. Rice served most recently as a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Obama for America campaign while on leave from the Brookings Institution where she is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development Programs. Rice currently serves on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board. From 1997-2001, she was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Prior to that, Rice served in the White House at the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs and as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping. Rice was previously a management consultant at McKinsey and Company. She received her B.A. in History with Honors from Stanford University and her M.Phil. and D.Phil. (Ph.D.) degrees in International Relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
Group Members
Jeffrey Bader
Jeremy Bash
Antony Blinken
Gregory Craig
Ivo Daalder
Richard Danzig
Mary De Rosa
Michele Flournoy
Stephen Flynn
Michelle Gavin
Philip Gordon
Scott Gration
Frank Januzzi
Colin Kahl
Liz King
Paul Kurtz
Daniel Kurtzer
Ellen Laipson
Mark Lippert
Denis McDonough
Michael McFaul
Carlos Monje
Erin O’Connor
Peter Ogden
Joseph Paulsen
Daniel Restrepo
Bruce Riedel
Dennis Ross
Mara Rudman
Whitney Schneidman
Eric Schwartz
Sarah Sewall
Daniel Shapiro
Steven Simon
Peter Singer
Gayle Smith
Mona Sutphen
Jennifer Urizar
Toni Verstandig
Jeremy Weinstein
