Lee S. Wolosky

Lee S. Wolosky is an American lawyer and former White House counterterrorism official. As of 2008, he is a partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP and an adjunct professor in International Affairs at Columbia University.

He served at the White House under presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush as director for transnational threats on the National Security Council staff. The Office of Transnational Threats coordinated U.S. government policy relating to terrorism, international crime (including financial crime), domestic preparedness, and critical infrastructure protection.

Mr. Wolosky's work at the White House coordinating efforts to disrupt and destroy international arms trafficking organizations inspired in part two movies: the Nicholas Cage/Ethan Hawke feature "Lord of War" and the forthcoming Michael Mann feature "Arms and the Man", which is based on Peter Landesman's August 17, 2003 cover story [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/magazine/17BOUT.html] of the same name from the "New York Times Magazine".

At Boies, Schiller, Mr. Wolosky represents a range of public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, commercial disputes and crisis management. He also advises sovereigns and other clients on U.S. governmental relations and the rapidly changing legal, regulatory, political, diplomatic and security environments in the United States and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Prior to his service at the White House, he served as the deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations' Economic Task Force on Russia, was associated with the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and served as a member of a team of Harvard University advisors to Mikhail Gorbachev. From 2002-2004, he served as co-director of the Council on Foreign Relations' Task Force on Terrorist Financing.

Mr. Wolosky is a "cum laude" graduate of Harvard Law School and a "magna cum laude" graduate of Harvard College. At Harvard Law School, he was an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and a recipient of the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. At Harvard College, he was a recipient of the John Harvard Scholarship and the Harvard College Scholarship.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Security Network. He is a regular foreign affairs analyst on Fox News and other news programs, including CBS Evening News, MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews," BBC World Service and CNBC's "Capital Report". His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times, and the International Herald Tribune, among other publications.

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* The original version of this article is taken from the biographical note at [http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/030401-wolosky.htm Statement of Lee S. Wolosky to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States] April 1, 2003; this document is public domain.