A member of the White House senior staff under President George W. Bush, Marc A. Thiessen served as chief speechwriter to the president and to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Prior to joining the Bush administration, Thiessen spent more than six years as spokesman and senior policy adviser to Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.). He is a weekly columnist for the Washington Post, and his articles can be found in many major publications. His book on the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation program, Courting Disaster (Regnery Press, 2010), is a New York Times bestseller. At AEI, Thiessen writes about U.S. foreign and defense policy issues for The American and the Enterprise Blog. He appears every Sunday on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" and makes frequent appearances on other TV and talk radio programs.

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Experience

• Columnist, Washington Post, 2010-present
• Cofounder, Oval Office Writers, 2009-present
• Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, 2009-2010
• Senior Speechwriter, Deputy Director of Speechwriting, Chief Speechwriter for President George W. Bush, the White House, 2004-2009
• Chief Speechwriter for Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Department of Defense, 2001-2004
• Spokesman and Senior Policy Adviser to Senator Jesse Helms, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1995-2001
• Press Secretary, Huffington for Senate Campaign, 1994
• Assistant to the President, Empower America, 1993-94
• Researcher and Deputy Communication Director, Black, Manafort, Stone, and Kelly, 1989-93

Education