The Hon. Stephen J. Hadley, Senior Advisor for International Affairs, US Institute of Peace; Former US National Security Advisor
Mr. Stephen J. Hadley completed four years as the assistant to the president for national security affairs on January 20, 2009. In that capacity he was the principal White House foreign policy adviser to then-President George W. Bush, directed the National Security Council staff, and ran the interagency national security policy development and execution process.
From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Hadley was the assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser, serving under then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. In addition to covering the full range of national security issues, Mr. Hadley had special responsibilities in several specific areas including US relations with Russia, the Israeli disengagement from Gaza, developing a strategic relationship with India, and ballistic missile defense.
From 1993 to 2001, Mr. Hadley was both a partner in the Washington, DC law firm of Shea and Gardner (now part of Goodwin Proctor) and a principal in The Scowcroft Group (a strategic consulting firm headed by former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft). In his law practice, Mr. Hadley was an administrative partner of the firm. He represented a range of corporate clients in transactional matters and in certain of the international aspects of their business. In his consulting practice, Mr. Hadley represented US corporate clients seeking to invest and do business overseas.
From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Hadley served as the assistant secretary of defense for international security policy under then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. Mr. Hadley represented the Defense Department on arms control matters, including negotiations with the Soviet Union and then Russia, on matters involving NATO and western Europe, on ballistic missile defense, and on export and technology control matters.
Prior to this position, Mr. Hadley alternated between government service and law practice with Shea & Gardner. He was counsel to the Tower Commission in 1987, as it investigated US arms sales to Iran, and served on the National Security Council under President Ford from 1974 to 1977. During his professional career, Mr. Hadley has served on a number of corporate and advisory boards, including: the National Security Advisory Panel to the director of Central Intelligence, the Department of Defense Policy Board, the Board of Directors of the US Institute of Peace, as a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as a trustee of ANSER (Analytical Services, Inc.), a public service research corporation. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council.
Mr. Hadley graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1969. In 1972, he received his JD from Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was Note and Comment editor of the Yale Law Journal.
