IDA Board of Trustees

Dr. John M. Palms, Chairman
President Emeritus, The University of South Carolina

Dr. David S.C. Chu
President, Institute for Defense Analyses
Former Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness); Assistant Secretary of Defense (Program Analysis and Evaluation)

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, Hercules Incorporated

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, and Managing Partner, Global Aerospace, Defense, and Aviation Practice, 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
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
Laboratory Senior Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Former Deputy Laboratory Director for Science, Technology & Programs, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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

Governor Thomas J. Ridge
President & CEO, Ridge Global LLC
Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Governor of Pennsylvania

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

General Larry Welch, USAF (Ret.)
Senior Fellow, Institute for Defense Analyses
Former President, Institute for Defense Analyses
Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force

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