Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft
(USAF, Ret.) 2003

As president and founder of The Scowcroft Group and one of the country’s leading experts on international policy, Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, (USAF, Ret.), provides clients with strategic advice and assistance in dealing in the international arena.

Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft served as the national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George Bush. From 1982 to 1989, he was vice chairman of Kissinger Associates Inc., an international consulting firm. Lieutenant General Scowcroft advised and assisted a wide range of U.S. and foreign corporate leaders in global joint-venture opportunities, strategic planning and risk assessment.

His extraordinary 29-year military career began with graduation from West Point and concluded at the rank of lieutenant general following service as the deputy national security adviser. His Air Force service included positions as professor of Russian history at West Point, assistant air attaché in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and head of the political science department at the Air Force Academy. He worked on Air Force long-range plans, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, on international security assistance, as special assistant to the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and as military assistant to President Richard Nixon.

After retiring from the military, he continued in a public policy capacity by serving on the President’s Advisory Committee on Arms Control, the Commission on Strategic Forces and the President’s Special Review Board, also known as the Tower Board.

He currently serves on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in international relations from Columbia University.