Merton Street
University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1
UK
R. James Woolsey is the Chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; IRSoc is delighted to welcome him back to Oxford for our last speaker event of Hilary Term in seventh week.
A former Rhodes scholar at St John’s College, Woolsey served as a foreign policy adviser before becoming Under Secretary of the Navy in the Carter administration in 1977. He served as an adviser to the U.S. delegation to the SALT I talks and was Delegate-at-Large for the START and NST in Geneva in the 1980s. His foreign policy expertise continued to be sought by the Reagan and H W Bush administrations, serving on the President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (1983-4), on Defense Management (1985-6), on Federal Ethics Law Reform (1989), and as Ambassador and U.S. Representative to the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe negotiations (1989-91). Woolsey began his service as Director of the CIA in 1993, serving until 1995. More recently, Woolsey served as an advisor on energy policy for John McCain during the 2008 presidential election, co-founded the United States Energy Security Council and joined Lux Capital as a venture partner in 2011; he continues to serve as Chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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