Lawrence J. Korb, Senior Advisor

Lawrence J. Korb is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a senior advisor to the Center for Defense Information. Prior to joining the Center, he was senior fellow and director of national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

From July 1998 to October 2002, he was council vice president, director of studies, and holder of the Maurice Greenberg Chair. Korb has also served as director of the Center for Public Policy Education and senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and vice president of corporate operations at the Raytheon Company.

Korb served as assistant secretary of defense (manpower, reserve affairs, installations and logistics) from 1981 through 1985. In that position, he administered about 70 percent of the defense budget. For his service in that position, he was awarded the Department of Defense’s medal for distinguished public service.

Korb is chairman of the board of advisors for the National Military Family Association. He has also been chairman of the board for the Committee of National Security, a member of the board of visitors of the Lyndon Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and of the Mershon Center at Ohio State University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Aspen Strategy Group. He was a member of the Defense Advisory Committee for President-Elect Reagan (1980) and a member of the Defense Issues Group for President-Elect Bush (1988).

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