Lee Hamilton (Board of Advisors)
Lee Hamilton is a member of the Board of Advisors of Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm. Mr. Hamilton is the Director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University and most recently served as President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Previously, Mr. Hamilton served for 34 years in Congress representing Indiana’s ninth district, where he chaired multiple committees including the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran.
After retiring from Congress, Mr. Hamilton served as Vice-Chair of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States (known as the 9/11 Commission).
He has also served as a commissioner on the influential U.S. Commission on National Security in the 21st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission), and was co-chair with former Senator Howard Baker of the Baker-Hamilton Commission to Investigate Certain Security Issues at Los Alamos.
Mr. Hamilton is currently Co-Chair of the National Security Preparedness Group with Tom Kean, and Co-Chair of the National Advisory Committee to the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools with Sandra Day O’Connor.
He is Co-Chair of the Department of Energy Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future with Brent Scowcroft, and serves on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the FBI Directors Advisory Board, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Task Force on Preventing the Entry of Weapons of Mass Effect on American Soil, and the CIA External Advisory Board.
Mr. Hamilton is the author of ‘A Creative Tension: The Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress’ (2002), ‘How Congress Works and Why You Should Care’ (2004), and ‘Strengthening Congress’ (2009).
He is also co-author of ‘Without Precedent: the Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission’ (2006), and ‘The Iraq Study Group Report’ (2006).