Richard Danzig Session Overview

Dr. Richard Danzig served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy from 1998 to 2001. His primary activities in recent years have been as a consultant to the US Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, a trustee of the RAND Corporation, and a director of European investment firm Saffron Hill Ventures. Danzig previously served as a director of National Semiconductor Corporation and of Human Genome Sciences Corporation; as Chairman of the Board of The Center for a New American Security and of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; and as Chair of the Advisory Panel for Idaho National Laboratories’ Innovation Center. Danzig has also been a member of President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the Secretary of Defense’s Defense Policy Board, the Homeland Security Secretary’s Advisory Council, the Aspen Strategy Group, the Toyota Research Institute Advisory Board, the Cyber Resilience Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the Reed College Board of Trustees. Danzig holds a B.A. from Reed College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a B.A. and Ph.D. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. After completing law school, Dr. Danzig served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White. In addition to his service in the US Department of Defense, Danzig was a Professor at Stanford Law School, a partner in the law firm Latham and Watkins, and a Rockefeller Foundation fellow. Danzig is the author of two books and numerous articles, including “Driving in the Dark: Ten Propositions about Prediction and U.S. National Security.”