Mr. Stephen J. Hadley

Stephen Hadley is a principal of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, an international strategic consulting firm founded with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and former State Department official Anja Manuel. He currently serves as an Executive Vice Chair
of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council, a member of Yale University’s Kissinger Papers Advisory Board, and a member of the Board of Managers of the John Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory.

Mr. Hadley served for four years as the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (the National Security Advisor) in the George W. Bush administration from 2005 to 2009. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Hadley served in the administration as the Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security
Advisor, serving under then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Mr. Hadley had previously served on the National Security Council staff from 1974 to 1977 and in the Defense Department including as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy from 1989 to 1993 under then
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. Immediately prior to his government service with the George W. Bush administration, Mr. Hadley was a
practicing lawyer with the D.C. law firm of Shea & Gardner (now part of Goodwin Proctor) and also a principal in the Scowcroft Group, an international consulting firm founded by former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft.

During his professional career, Mr. Hadley has served on a number of corporate, nonprofit, and advisory boards, including: the National Security Advisory Panel to the Director of Central Intelligence, the Department of Defense Policy Board, the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, and the Raytheon Company (now part of RTX). He is also the former Board Chair and Board Director of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and a former Board Director of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Hadley is the editor of the book Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama.