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Robert M. Gates
President, Texas A&M University and Former Director of Central Intelligence
Oil ShockWave Cabinet Position: National Security Advisor
Robert M. Gates is the 22nd President of Texas A&M University, one of the nation's largest universities and an institution recognized internationally for its teaching, research and public service. He assumed the presidency of the Land-Grant, Sea-Grant and Space-Grant University on August 1, 2002.
Robert Gates served as Interim Dean of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M from 1999-2001. He served as Director of Central Intelligence from November 6, 1991 until January 20, 1993. In this position, he headed all foreign intelligence agencies of the United States and directed the Central Intelligence Agency. Robert is the only career officer in CIA's history to rise from entry-level employee to Director.
He served as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from 1986 until 1989 and as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor at The White House from January 20, 1989 until November 6, 1991, under President George H.W. Bush. Back to List
Carol Browner
Principal of the Albright Group and Former Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
Oil ShockWave Cabinet Position: Secretary of the Interior
Carol Browner is the longest serving administrator in the history of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She received the appointment from President Bill Clinton in January 1993, and was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. During her tenure, she partnered with business leaders, community advocates, and all levels of government heads to promote common sense, cost-effective solutions to the nation's most pressing environmental and public health challenges. She successfully built broad bi-partisan support in Congress to pass two pivotal modern environmental laws - the landmark Food Quality Protection Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Browner knows environmental regulation both from the Washington and state perspective. From 1991 to 1993, Browner was Secretary of Florida's Department of Environmental Regulation, one of the nation's largest state environmental agencies. She won praise for dealing effectively with difficult issues involving wetland protection, hazardous waste disposal, and Everglades cleanup. Back to List
Richard N. Haass
President of the Council on Foreign Relations and Former Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State
Oil ShockWave Cabinet Position: Secretary of State
Richard Haass is President of the Council on Foreign Relations, a position he has held since July 2003. The Council, based in New York with an office in Washington, DC, is an independent, national membership organization and a nonpartisan center for scholars dedicated to producing and disseminating ideas so that individual and corporate members, as well as policymakers, journalists, students, and interested citizens in the United States and other countries, can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments.
Haass is the author or editor of eleven books on American foreign policy. His most recent book is The Opportunity (Public Affairs, May 2005). He is also the author of one book on management: The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization.
Until June 2003, Richard Haass was Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell on a broad range of foreign policy concerns. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate to hold the rank of ambassador, Haass served as U.S. Coordinator for policy toward the future of Afghanistan and was the lead U.S. Government official in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. For his efforts, he received the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award. Back to List
General P.X. Kelley USMC (Ret.)
Former Commandant of the Marine Corps and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Oil ShockWave Cabinet Position: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Kelley served as the 28th Commandant of the Marine Corps and Member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1983 until his retirement in 1987. Subsequently, he served under three Presidents as Chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission. In this position he was responsible for the design and construction of the Korean War Veterans Memorial, and the legislation, construction and dedication of the National World War II Memorial. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics from Villanova University, is a Distinguished Graduate of the Air War College, and has received honorary doctoral degrees from his Alma Mater, Norwich University, Webster University, Jacksonville University, The United States Sports Academy and Renesselaer Polytechnic Institute.
During his 37-year military career he commanded Marine Corps organizations at every echelon from platoon through division, including command of an infantry battalion and infantry regiment during two separate combat tours in the Republic of Vietnam. He also has had the unique experience of duty with the Army, Navy, Air Force and Royal Marines, where he commanded a Commando Troop in Singapore, Borneo and Malaya. In December 1979, he was appointed by the President as the first Commander of the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, and spearheaded the initiative which eventually culminated in its re-designation as the U.S. Central Command. General Kelley was selected twice for accelerated promotion, once to the rank of Colonel and again to the rank of Major General. He remains the youngest Marine to be promoted to the rank of General, and is a Marine Corps Parachutist, Army Master Parachutist and Navy SCUBA Diver. Back to List
Don Nickles
Former Senator for the state of Oklahoma and Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee
Oil ShockWave Cabinet Position: Secretary of Treasury
Don Nickles is a seasoned and important voice on American politics and the national agenda. This four-term U.S. Senator (now retired) is a superb and experienced presenter who brings a sound conservative perspective on economic growth, social issues and the political landscape. After being steeped in the ways of Washington and the world for decades, Don Nickles retired from the Senate in 2005 and formed The Nickles Group, a lobbying firm.
Don was elected to the United States Senate in 1980 at age 31 (the youngest Republican ever elected to the Senate) and served the state of Oklahoma and the nation for 24 years. He was a key member of the Senate Republican Leadership for more than a decade, serving as Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee, Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee and as the Assistant Republican Leader from 1996-2002. Nickles was Chairman of the powerful Senate Budget Committee during his last two years in the Senate and was a senior member of both the Senate Finance Committee and the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Back to List
Gene Sperling
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, and Former National Economic Advisor and head of the National Economic Council
Oil ShockWave Cabinet Position: National Economic Advisor
Gene Sperling is Senior Fellow for economic policy at the Center for American Progress. He also serves as Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Council on Foreign Relations, focusing on policies to increase children's access to basic education in the world's poorest countries. Previously, Mr. Sperling served as National Economic Advisor to President Clinton from 1997-2001.
As National Economic Advisor and Director of the National Economic Council he was responsible for coordinating the economic cabinet members in making policy recommendations to the President. Mr. Sperling coordinated President Clinton's policy efforts on deficit reduction, Saving Social Security First, USA Accounts, and globalization workforce and trade issues. Mr. Sperling was the third Director of the National Economic Council, following Robert Rubin (1993-1994) and Laura Tyson (1995-1996). In President Clinton's first term, he served as Deputy National Economic Advisor. Back to List
Linda Stuntz
Founding Partner, Stuntz, Davis & Staffier and Former Deputy Secretary of Energy
Oil ShockWave Cabinet Position: Secretary of Energy
Linda Stuntz is a founding partner of the law firm of Stuntz, Davis & Staffier, P.C. in Washington, D.C. Her law practice includes energy and environmental regulation, as well as matters relating to government support of technology development and transfer.
Ms. Stuntz served as Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Energy under President George H.W. Bush. In that position, and in other senior policy positions at the Department between 1989 and 1993, she played a principal role in the development and enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 1992.
Ms. Stuntz also helped to develop the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, and was active in the implementation of these amendments, particularly the acid rain and alternative fuels programs. In addition, she worked extensively on issues related to potential global climate change and energy-related measures to minimize greenhouse gas emissions.
During both her government service and her private law practice, she has addressed questions arising under the Natural Gas Act, the Natural Gas Policy Act, the Federal Power Act and the Interstate Commerce Act. She frequently serves as an arbitrator in complex cases involving the electric power, natural gas and coal industries. Back to List
R. James Woolsey
Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton and Former Director of Central Intelligence
Oil ShockWave Cabinet Position: Secretary of Homeland Security
R. James Woolsey joined Booz Allen Hamilton in July 2002 as a Vice President and officer in the firm's Global Resilience practice, located in McLean, Virginia. Previously Mr. Woolsey served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations. He was also previously a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC, where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
During his 12 years of government service Mr. Woolsey was: Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995; Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989-1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977-1979; and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970-1973. He was also appointed by the President as Delegate at Large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST), and served in that capacity on a part-time basis in Geneva, Switzerland, 1983-1986. As an officer in the U.S. Army, he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969-1970. Back to List
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