IDA Board of Trustees

Dr. John M. Palms, Chairman
Distinguished President Emeritus; Distinguished University Professor University of South Carolina

General Larry D. Welch, USAF (Ret.)
President, Institute for Defense Analyses
Former Chief of Staff of the Air Force

Admiral Steve Abbot, USN (Ret.)
President and Chief Executive Officer, Navy Marine Corps Relief Society
Former Acting Homeland Security Advisor to the President

Mr. Edwin Dorn
Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Former Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness); Assistant Secretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness)

Mr. R. Keith Elliott
Retired Chairman and CEO of Hercules Incorporated
Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Hercules, Incorporated

Michele A. Flournoy
President, Center for a New American Security
Former Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy

Ambassador Chas. W. Freeman, Jr.
Chairman, Projects International, Inc.
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs); Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (African Affairs)

General Carlton W. Fulford, Jr. USMC (Ret.)
Director, Africa Center for Strategic Studies (NDU)
Former Deputy Commander, US European Command; Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force Pacific

Dr. Edward R. Jayne, II
Partner, Heidrick & Struggles
Former President, McDonnell Douglas Missile Systems Company and Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs, Office of Management and Budget

Dr. Martha A. Krebs
Deputy Director for Energy Research and Development Division, California Energy Commission
Former Assistant Secretary and Director, Office of Science, Department of Energy

Dr. Jill P. Mesirov
Associate Institute Director, Chief Informatics Officer, and Director, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Programs, The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, MIT & Harvard University
Former Manager of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IBM; Director of Research, Thinking Machines Corporation

Dr. William H. Press
Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Former Deputy Laboratory Director for Science, Technology & Programs, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Mr. Robert L. Prestel
Former Deputy Director, National Security Agency

General Gordon R. Sullivan, USA (Ret.)
President, Association of the U.S. Army
Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Army

Dr. John P. White
Lecturer in Public Policy, JFK School of Government, Harvard University
Former Deputy Secretary of Defense; Deputy Director, OMB

Dr. Sheila E. Widnall
Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Former Secretary of the Air Force

Dr. Suzanne H. Woolsey
Paladin Capital Group
Former Chief Communications Officer, National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council