Bruce Jackson

Bruce Jackson is the president of the Project on Transitional Democracies.

Professional Positions

* President, Project on Transitional Democracies 2002-Present
* Served as the Vice President for Strategy and Planning at Lockheed Martin, 1993-2002.
* Worked for Lehman Brothers, as a strategist for proprietary trading operations, 1990-1993.
* Served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, holding a variety of positions pertaining to nuclear weapons and arms control, 1986-1990.
* Served in the US Army as a Military Intelligence Officer, 1979-1990.

Political Roles

* McCain for President 2008, Foreign Policy advisory team
* 2000 Republican National Convention: Chair of Platform Subcommittee for Foreign Policy, presidential campaign (George W. Bush).
* Republican National Convention: Platform Committee and Platform Subcommittee for National Security and Foreign Policy, 1996.
* Dole for President: National Co-Chairman of Finance Committee 1995-1996.

Think Tank and Non-profit affiliations

* Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
* Is the President of the Project on Transitional Democracies.
* In 2002-2003 served as the Chairman of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a non-profit organisation set-up that advocated the ousting of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
* From 1995-2002 served as the president of the US Committee on NATO, a non-profit organisation that promoted NATO expansion and strengthening the US-European Relationship.
* The founder and president of the Project on Transitional Democracies for the Project for the New American Century, a group whose goal is "to accelarte the integration of Europe's new democracies into NATO and the European Union."
* Serves on the Board of the "We Remember Foundation" a non-profit organization involved in the search for justice for the families of disappeared persons in Belarus and around the world and in advocacy of human rights.

Eastern Europe Relations

* A long-time proponent of NATO expansion, Jackson was instrumental in securing US Senate ratification of Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary as members of NATO and organizing the second "Vilnius Round" of NATO expansion which brought the Baltic States, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria into both NATO and the European Union. Since 2002, he has been active in the Balkans and post-Soviet democracies advocating democratic reform and EU accession.