Dr.
Hans Binnendijk
Vice President for Research
National Defense University
Director and Roosevelt Chair
Center for Technology and National Security Policy
Dr. Hans Binnendijk is currently the Vice President
for Research of the National Defense University and Theodore
Roosevelt Chair in National Security Policy. He is also Director
of the Center for Technology and National Security Policy. He
previously served on the National Security Council as Special
Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Defense Policy
and Arms Control (1999-2001). From 1994 to 1999, Dr. Binnendijk
was Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies
at the National Defense University. Prior to that, he was Principal
Deputy Director and Acting Director of the State Department's
Policy Planning Staff (1993-1994). He also served as Deputy
Staff Director and Legislative Director of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee (1980-1985). He has received numerous awards
for his government service, including two Distinguished Public
Service Awards.
In academia, Dr. Binnendijk was Director of the Institute for
the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, where he was
also the Marshall B. Coyne Research Professor at the Edmund
A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (1991-1993). He was Deputy
Director and Director of Studies at London's International Institute
for Strategic Studies and Editor of Survival from 1988-1991.
He is author or co-author of more than 100 articles, editorials
and reports. His most recent book is Seeing the Elephant: The
U.S. Role in Global Security ( Potomac Books: 2006).
Dr. Binnendijk serves on the Board of Overseers of the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy, on the Studies Committee of the
Council on Foreign Relations, and on the Board of Humanity in
Action. He previously served on the US Committee of the International
Institute for Strategic Studies and the CSIS International Research
Council.
Dr. Binnendijk is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania
and received his Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.