Michèle Flournoy

Michèle Flournoy served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2009 to 2012. Prior to that, she co-founded and served as President of the Center for a New American Security from 2007 to 2009; she also served as its CEO from 2014 to 2017.

In the mid-1990s, Michèle served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy. She is also a former member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and the CIA Director’s External Advisory Board.

She is a co-founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors (a strategic advisory firm), a member of the Defense Policy Board, a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and serves on the Boards of Directors of CSRA, Amida Technology Solutions, The Mission Continues, Spirit of America and CARE.

Flournoy earned her BA from Harvard University and a masters from Oxford University.