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William J. Perry Ashton B. Carter John M. Deutch Robert Hermann Paul G. Kaminski John P. Stenbit John P. White George M. Whitesides Herbert S. Winokur	Ashton B. Carter Ashton B. Carter is Chair of the International Relations, Science, and Security faculty at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Co-Director of the Preventive Defense Project, a research collaboration of Harvard and Stanford Universities. From 1993 to 1996, Dr. Carter served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, where he was responsible for the national security policy on arms control in the states of the former Soviet Union, for countering arms proliferation worldwide, and for overseeing the U.S. nuclear arsenal and missile defense programs. He was twice awarded the Department of Defense's Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award given by the Pentagon, and was also awarded the Defense Intelligence Medal. A longtime member of the Defense Science Board and the Defense Policy Board, the principal advisory bodies to the Secretary of Defense, Dr. Carter continues to advise the U.S. government as a member of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's International Security Advisory Board, co-chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Policy Advisory Group, a consultant to the Defense Science Board, a member of the National Missile Defense White Team, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control. In addition to his public service, Dr. Carter is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the MITRE Corporation, and the Advisory Boards of MIT's Lincoln Laboratories and the Draper Laboratory. He is a consultant to Goldman, Sachs, Inc. and Mitretek Systems, Inc. on international affairs and technology matters, and speaks frequently to business and policy audiences. Dr. Carter is also a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Physical Society, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and the National Committee on U.S., China Relations. Dr. Carter was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Before his government service, Dr. Carter was Director of the Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School. He received bachelor's degrees in Medieval History and Physics from Yale University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He received his doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In addition to authoring numerous articles, scientific publications, government studies, and Congressional testimonies, Dr. Carter has also co-edited and co-authored eleven books.