Michele Flournoy

Michèle Flournoy was appointed President of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) in January 2007. Prior to co-founding CNAS, she was a Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where she worked on a broad range of defense policy and international security issues. Previously, she was a distinguished research professor at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University (NDU), where she founded and led the university’s Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) working group, which was chartered by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop intellectual capital in preparation for the Department of Defense’s 2001 QDR.

Government service

Prior to joining NDU, she occupied the dual roles of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy. In those capacities, she oversaw three policy offices in the Office of theSecretary of Defense: Strategy; Requirements, Plans, and Counterproliferation; and Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasian Affairs. Ms. Flournoy was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 1996, the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 1998, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Joint Distinguished Civilian Service Award in 2000.

Affiliations

She is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Executive Board of Women in International Security. She is a former member of the Defense Policy Board and the Defense Science Board Task Force on Transformation.

Publications

In addition to several edited volumes and reports, she has authored dozens of articles on international security issues.

"The Future of the National Guard and Reserves", with Christine Wormuth, Clark Murdock, Patrick Henry, (Washington, D.C.: Press, July 2006)

"European Defense Integration: Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Capabilities", with Julianne Smith, Guy Ben-Ari, David Scruggs, and Kathleen McInnis, (Washington D.C.: CSIS Press, October 2005)

"Beyond Goldwater-Nichols: Phase II Report", with Clark Murdock, (Washington, D.C.: CSIS Press, July 2005)

"Beyond Goldwater-Nichols: Defense Reform for a New Strategic Era: Phase I Report", with Clark Murdock, Christopher Williams, and Kurt Campbell, (Washington, D.C.: CSIS Press, March 2004)

Education

Ms. Flournoy holds an A.B. in social studies from Harvard University and an M.Litt. in international relations from Balliol College, Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum scholar.

External links

* [http://www.cnas.org/en/cms/?93 CNAS's biography of Michele Flournoy]
* [http://www.cnas.org CNAS's homepage]
* [http://www.observer.com/2007/hot-policy-wonks-democrats-new-realists An article on Flournoy and CNAS published in The New York Observer]