Biography
R. James “Jim” Woolsey is a venture partner at VantagePoint Venture Partners and the Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
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 twenty-two years.
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.