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R. James Woolsey - VP
R. James Woolsey joined Booz Allen Hamilton’s McLean, Virginia, office in 2002 as a Vice President working with the firm’s Global Resilience clients. He retired from the firm in February, 2008 and on March 1, 2008, Mr. Woolsey joined Goodwin Procter LLP Washington, D.C. as of counsel. He serves as a Senior Executive Advisor to Booz Allen. In the above capacities he specializes in a range of alternative energy and security issues. In 2003, Consulting magazine named Mr. Woolsey to its list of Top 25 Consultants in the United States. He advises companies on how to protect themselves from potential threats and vulnerabilities, including direct risks to personnel, information, and physical properties and equipment-as well as indirect risks to business markets and channels, supply chains, and external infrastructure.
Before joining Booz Allen, Mr. Woolsey served in the U.S. government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations. He was also previously a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC, where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution. During his 12 years of government service, Mr. Woolsey was Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995; Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, from 1989 to 1991; Under Secretary of the Navy from 1977 to 1979; and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services from 1970 to 1973. Mr. Woolsey was also appointed by the President as Delegate at Large to the U.S.–Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST), and served in that capacity on a part-time basis in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1983 to 1986. As an officer in the U.S. Army, he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, from 1969 to 1970. Mr. Woolsey is currently Co-Chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a Trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. He also serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy. Mr. Woolsey has previously served as a member of The National Commission on Terrorism, 1999–2000; The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998; The President’s Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989; The President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), 1985–1986; and The President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission), 1983. Mr. Woolsey is a frequent contributor of articles to major publications, and from time to time gives public speeches and media interviews on the subjects of foreign affairs, defense, energy, critical infrastructure protection and resilience, and intelligence. Mr. Woolsey received his B.A. degree from Stanford University (1963, With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1963–1965), and an LL.B from Yale Law School (1968, Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal). profile updated April 2008 Related Links...
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