Brent Scowcroft
As President of The
Scowcroft Group and one of the country's leading experts on
international policy, Brent Scowcroft provides Group clients
with unparalleled strategic advice and assistance in dealing in
the international arena.
Brent Scowcroft has served as the National Security Advisor to
both Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. From 1982 to
1989, he was Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an
international consulting firm. In this capacity, he advised and
assisted a wide range of U.S. and foreign corporate leaders on
global joint venture opportunities, strategic planning, and risk
assessment.
His prior extraordinary twenty-nine-year military career began
with graduation from West Point and concluded at the rank of
Lieutenant General following service as the Deputy National
Security Advisor. His Air Force service included Professor of
Russian History at West Point; Assistant Air Attaché in
Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Head of the Political Science Department
at the Air Force Academy; Air Force Long Range Plans; Office of
the Secretary of Defense International Security Assistance;
Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;
and Military Assistant to President Nixon.
Out of uniform, he continued in a public policy capacity by
serving on the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms
Control, the President's Commission on Strategic Forces, the
President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management and the
President's Special Review Board, also known as the Tower
Commission. In recent years, General Scowcroft has served as a
co-chair for both the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's
Nuclear Future and the National Academies of Science's Committee
on Science, Security, and Prosperity. He formerly served as the
Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and was a
member of the United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level
Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change.
General Scowcroft currently serves on numerous corporate and
nonprofit boards. He has been recognized as a Distinguished
Graduate of West Point, and earned his masters and doctorate in
international relations from Columbia University.
In 1991, General Scowcroft was presented with the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President George H.W. Bush, and in 1993 was presented with the insignia of an Honorary Knight of the British Empire (K.B.E.) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace. In 2009, he was presented the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.