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CSBA Board of Directors
Dave McCurdy, Chair Pete du Pont
Dave McCurdy is President and CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a trade association of car and light truck manufacturers including BMW Group, Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz USA, Mitsubishi Motors, Porsche, Toyota and Volkswagen Group of America.
Daniel R. Coats is a senior policy advisor at King & Spalding Public Policy and Government Advocacy Practice Group. Senator Coats joined King & Spalding in 2005, after serving as US Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany from August 2001. Dan Coats represented the State of Indiana in the United States Senate from 1989 to 1999. In Senate he served on the Armed Services Committee as chair of the subcommittees on Military Personnel and Air/Land Forces, the Labor and Human Resources Committee, and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Prior to his appointment the U.S. Senate and subsequent election, Senator Coats represented Indiana’s Fourth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1988. From 1977 to 1980, Coats served as Indiana Director for then Congressman Dan Quayle. Coats served in the U.S. Army from 1966-68. He is a former member of the West Point Board of Visitors, the Defense Panel on Globalization and Privatization, and the Defense Policy Board. He served on the Joint Forces Command Board of Visitors.
Devon Gaffney Cross is Director of The Policy Forum on International Affairs and has extensive experience in funding research on foreign policy issues, having served as Director of Research at Smith Richardson Foundation, President of The Donner Canadian Foundation, and Director of The Gilder Foundation. Ms. Cross serves on the boards of The Peter Munk Charitable Foundation, Intelligence Squared/US, and the Advisory Board for Johns Hopkins SAIS National Security Studies Program, and served on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board from 20001-2009. Her Washington experience included stints at The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Carnegie Endowment, and the International Security Studies Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center. She studied at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and received her BA from Bryn Mawr College. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Pete du Pont served as a member of the Delaware and National Republican Finance Committees and became a state representative where he served from 1968-1971. He was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1970, and subsequently served two terms as governor of Delaware from 1976 to 1984. He was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988. Mr. du Pont served on the Presidential Advisory Committee on Federalism and on the President’s Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives. He founded Jobs for Graduates, a job-counseling program for high school students. Mr. du Pont attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and served as a US Naval Reserve Officer as part of the Seabees from 1957-1960.
Vic H. Fazio is Senior Advisor at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP. Mr. Fazio represented California’s 3rd District in the US Congress for twenty years, where he served on the House Appropriations Committee as a subcommittee chairman or ranking member for eighteen years. He was also a member of the Armed Services, Budget, Ethics and House Administration committees. Mr. Fazio was active in the Democratic leadership, serving as vice chair and, later, chair of the Democratic Caucus, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, majority whip-at-large and regional representative on the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. Before his election to Congress, Mr. Fazio served in the California State Assembly. After his retirement from Congress in 1998, Mr. Fazio joined strategic communications consulting firm Clark & Weinstock. Mr. Fazio is a graduate of Union College in Schenectady (NY). He is a co-founder of the California Journal, a periodical covering state government and politics. Mr. Fazio serves on boards of the UC Davis Foundation, California Institute, the US Capitol Historical Society, the Campaign Finance Institute, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Ice Energy Corporation and the National Parks Second Century Commission and Committee for a Responsible Budget.
Nelson M. Ford is President and CEO of LMI, a government consulting firm. Prior to joining LMI in 2009, Mr. Ford was Under Secretary of the Army. Previous to this position, he held a number of positions in the Department of Defense, including Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller. From 1997 to 2000, he was President and CEO of Clinipad, a manufacturer of disposable medical products. During the 1990s, he was Chief Operating Officer of Georgetown University Medical Center. During the 1980s, Mr. Ford was a partner with Coopers & Lybrand, providing strategic and financial consulting services to a wide range of healthcare clients. During the 1970s, he was the Executive Secretary of the Health Care Financing Administration and worked on health policy matters in the Office of Management and Budget. Mr. Ford holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Duke University, a master’s in education from the University of Delaware.
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Elihu Rose is a partner of Rose Associates, a New York real estate investment and management firm. Dr. Rose teaches military history at New York University and has been a visiting lecturer at Columbia and Yale Universities. He serves on the boards of several civic organizations and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Elihu Rose holds a PhD and an MA from New York University and a BS from Yale University. He served in the US Air Force, both active and reserve from 1954 to 1965. In 1993 he received the Superior Public Service Medal from the US Navy and in 2003 he was awarded the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal from the US Army.
James J. Shinn is a visiting lecturer at the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education at the Princeton University. In 2007-2008, he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian & Pacific Security Affairs. In this position, he was the civilian advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Secretary of Defense on national security matters in the Asian and Pacific region. Before his service at the Pentagon, Dr. Shinn was the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia on the National Intelligence Council, first at the Central Intelligence Agency and then the newly-created Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In 2002, he was nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate as Public Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. From 1976 to 1979, he served in the East Asia Bureau of the US Department of State. Dr. Shinn worked for fifteen years in high-tech firms in Silicon Valley and Asia, first at Advanced Micro Devices, an integrated circuit firm, and then at Dialogic, a voice-processing software firm, which he co-founded. He is the author of Weaving the Net: Conditional Engagement with China (1996), and Fires Across the Water: Transnational Problems in Asia (1998), and a co-author (with Peter Gourevitch) of Political Power and Corporate Control: the New Global Politics of Corporate Governance (2005). Mr. Shinn holds a BA from Princeton, an MBA from Harvard, and a Ph.D. from Princeton.
R. James Woolsey From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Woolsey served as a member of VantagePoint’s Advisory Council. Prior to that he served as a Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton for six years and practiced law for 22. Mr. Woolsey has served five times in the federal government for a total of twelve years, holding presidential appointments in two Democratic and two Republican administrations, including as Under Secretary of the Navy from 1977 to 1979, and Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995, among others. Mr. Woolsey holds a BA from Stanford University, an MA from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a law degree from Yale.
Laurence Zuriff is the Managing Partner of Granite Capital International Group and Chief Investment Officer of Unterberg Technology Funds. Prior to joining Granite Capital in 2000, he ran the Weiss Peck and Greer Tudor Fund and was an equity analyst at York Capital. He previously served as an Analyst at SAIC, Graduate Fellow in the Office of Net Assessments at the Department of Defense, and Legislative Assistant to Congressman Jon Kyl. Mr. Zuriff holds a BA from Brown University and an MA from John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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