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Robert E. Hunter
Senior Advisor, RAND Corporation
Robert E. Hunter, Senior Advisor at RAND, is an expert in a wide variety of foreign policy and national security fields. At RAND, he has focused in particular on Europe (including NATO and the European Union), the Middle East (both the Arab-Israeli conflict and Persian Gulf), health and foreign policy, reforming the National Security Council of the Republic of Georgia, counter-insurgency, and US defense policy. He initiated the RAND project on the requirements for a successful Palestinian state. Currently, he is developing an alternative security structure for the Persian Gulf and leading a task force on the integration of instruments of U.S. power and influence. In 2007, the Belgian government awarded him the Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown for his work in modernizing NATO and for helping to repair US-Belgian relations after the Iraq war.
He has been a leading figure in US foreign policy and national security for more than three decades. He served on the National Security Council staff under President Carter, as Director of West European and then Middle East Affairs. He was US Ambassador to NATO under President Clinton and lead architect in the reform of the NATO alliance, helping to devise its landmark Partnership for Peace, creating the first institutional relationship between NATO and the European Union, and negotiating the NATO air strikes that ended the Bosnia War. In addition to his work at RAND, Ambassador Hunter is President of the Atlantic Treaty Association (the umbrella organization for NATO's 41 Atlantic Councils), Chairman of the Council for a Community of Democracies, a Senior Concept Developer for NATO's Allied Command Transformation, and a member of the Senior Advisory Group to the US European Command. He is author (with Dr. Seth Jones) of the RAND publication Building a Successful Palestinian State: Security. He has twice been decorated with the Pentagon's highest civilian honor and by 7 European governments, including the French Legion of Honor.
Ambassador Hunter received his Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics and his B.A. in social studies from Wesleyan University.
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