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David C. Gompert
Senior Fellow
David Gompert is a Senior Fellow at the RAND Corporation and a member of the faculty of the RAND Pardee Graduate School. Prior to this, he was Distinguished Research Professor at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University. From 2003 to 2004 Mr. Gompert served as the Senior Advisor for National Security and Defense, Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq.
Mr. Gompert served as President of RAND Europe from 2000 to 2003, during which period he was on the RAND Europe Executive Board and the Chairman of RAND UK. He was Vice President of RAND and Director of the National Defense Research Institute from 1993 to 2000.
From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Gompert served as Special Assistant to President George H. W. Bush and Senior Director for Europe and Eurasia on the National Security Council staff. He has held a number of positions at the State Department, including Deputy to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs (1982-83), Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs (1981-82), Deputy Director of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs (1977-81), and Special Assistant to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (1973-75).
Mr. Gompert worked in the private sector from 1983-1990. At Unisys (1989-90), he was President of the Systems Management Group and Vice President for Strategic Planning and Corporate Development. At AT&T (1983-89), he was Vice President, Civil Sales and Programs, and Director of International Market Planning.
Mr. Gompert has published extensively on international affairs, national security policy, and information technology. His books include BattleWise: Achieving Time-Information Superiority in Networked Warfare; Nuclear Weapons and World Politics (ed.); America and Europe: A Partnership for a new Era (ed.); Right Makes Might: Freedom and Power in the Information Age; Mind the Gap: A Transatlantic Revolution in Military Affairs; and Shoulder to Shoulder: The Road to US-European Military Co-operability. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Executive Panel of the Chief of Naval Operations, the Foreign Policy Association, Atlantik Brücke, and the Board of Trustees of Hopkins House.
Mr. Gompert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the United States Naval Academy and a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.
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