Arnold Kanter
A Principal and founding member of The Scowcroft Group, Arnold Kanter provides strategic advice and direct assistance to companies in the aerospace, financial services, metals, transportation, chemical, and other industries. He also conducts risk assessments of market opportunities in East Asia and Russia.
Dr. Kanter served as Under Secretary of State from 1991 to 1993. As the third-ranking official in the State Department, he functioned as its “chief operating officer” with responsibility for the day-to-day management of United States foreign policy. Before assuming this position, he served on the White House Staff from 1989 to 1991 as Special Assistant to the President, and in a variety of capacities in the State Department from 1977 to 1985.
In addition to his government experience, Dr. Kanter was a program director at the RAND Corporation, a member of the research staff at the Brookings Institution, and a member of the faculty at Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, and his master and doctoral degrees from Yale University.
Previously a member of the Defense Policy Board and the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Dr. Kanter serves as an adviser to the intelligence community. He also is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (where he chairs the Congressional staff roundtable on national security), the Aspen Strategy Group, the Trilateral Commission and the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and is a director of the Atlantic Council.
A Principal and founding member of The Scowcroft Group, Arnold Kanter provides strategic advice and direct assistance to companies in the aerospace, financial services, metals, transportation, chemical, and other industries. He also conducts risk assessments of market opportunities in East Asia and Russia.
Dr. Kanter served as Under Secretary of State from 1991 to 1993. As the third-ranking official in the State Department, he functioned as its “chief operating officer” with responsibility for the day-to-day management of United States foreign policy. Before assuming this position, he served on the White House Staff from 1989 to 1991 as Special Assistant to the President, and in a variety of capacities in the State Department from 1977 to 1985.
In addition to his government experience, Dr. Kanter was a program director at the RAND Corporation, a member of the research staff at the Brookings Institution, and a member of the faculty at Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, and his master and doctoral degrees from Yale University.
Previously a member of the Defense Policy Board and the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Dr. Kanter serves as an adviser to the intelligence community. He also is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (where he chairs the Congressional staff roundtable on national security), the Aspen Strategy Group, the Trilateral Commission and the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and is a director of the Atlantic Council.