Stefan Halper

Dr. Stefan Halper is a Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge and a Senior Fellow at the Cambridge Centre of International Studies, where he is Director of the Donner Atlantic Studies Programme [http://www.intstudies.cam.ac.uk/staff/halper-stefan.html] . Halper holds doctorates from both Cambridge and Oxford Universities; he obtained a B.A.from Stanford University.

He is the co-author of the bestselling book, "America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order" (Cambridge University Press, 2004) [http://www.cambridge.org/us/features/0521838347/] and "The Silence of the Rational Centre: Why American Foreign Policy is Failing" (Basic Books, 2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Silence-Rational-Center-American-Foreign/dp/0465011411] .

Halper began a long career of public service for the US government in1971 in the Executive Office of the President. He held positions in the White House office of Communications, The Domestic Council and the Office of Management and Budget under President Richard Nixon. With the Ford Presidency, Halper moved to the Office of the White House Chief of Staff where he worked on a range of domestic and international issues. In 1977 Halper became Special Council to the Joint Economic Committee and Legislative Assistant to Senator William Roth (R-Del.). In 1979 he became National Policy Director for George H. W. Bush’s Presidential campaign before becoming Director of Policy Coordination for the Reagan-Bush ticket in 1980.

After Reagan entered the White House, Halper became Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs and continued to operate as a Presidential advisor on national security until George H. W. Bush lost the Presidential Election to Bill Clinton in 1992.

Halper has worked as a senior foreign policy advisor to various think-tanks and research institutions, including the Republican National Committee, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, and the Nixon Centre in Washington DC where he is a Distinguished Fellow. . He has been a Senior Advisor to the Department of Defense, served on the Advisory Board of Directors of the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and contributed to various magazines, journals, newspapers and media outlets, including the National Interest, the Washington Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, BBC News, Sky News, ABC, NBC, C-SPAN, CNN and Radio America.

Stefan Halper is a member of the Cosmos Club in Washington and the Travelers Club in London. He is a recipient of the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award and the Defense Department’s Honor Award. He also holds awards from the White House and the Department of Justice.