Speaker biographies

Thomas Donnelly is a resident fellow in defense and security policy studies and the director of the Center for Defense Studies at AEI. He is the author, with Frederick W. Kagan, of Ground Truth: The Future of U.S. Land Power (AEI Press, May 2008); the coeditor, with Gary J. Schmitt, of Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources (AEI Press, 2007); and the author of The Military We Need (AEI Press, 2005), Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment (AEI Press, 2004), and several other books.  From 1995 to 1999, he was policy group director and a professional staff member for the House Armed Services Committee. Mr. Donnelly also served as a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is a former editor of Armed Forces Journal, Army Times, and Defense News.

Steven F. Hayward is the F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at AEI and a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute. He is also an adjunct fellow at the John Ashbrook Center and a former Bradley Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Mr. Hayward studies the environment, law, political economy, and the presidency. He is the author of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, published jointly by the AEI Press and the Pacific Research Institute. Mr. Hayward contributes to AEI's Energy and Environment Outlook series and has authored numerous books, including Greatness (Crown, 2005), The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964–1980 (Crown, 2001), and Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity (Crown, 1998).

Ted Jones serves as the director for policy advocacy and business development at the U.S.-India Business Council. He is responsible for the Energy, Environment and Enterprise Committee and the council's political advocacy, through Coalition for Partnership with India, for the U.S.-India Civilian Nuclear Initiative. Mr. Jones also handles corporate social responsibility projects. Prior to joining the U.S.-India Business Council, Mr. Jones worked in public affairs at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He will soon enter his final year toward a J.D. at Georgetown University Law Center.

Frederick W. Kagan is a resident scholar and the director of the Critical Threats Project at AEI. He served as an adviser to General Stanley A. McChrystal this summer, and his most recent reports, based on multiple trips to Afghanistan, focus on force requirements and analyses of how various stakeholders in Afghanistan and Pakistan would respond to different U.S. policy scenarios. He is the author of Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq, the first of four reports by the Iraq Planning Group at AEI. His most recent book, Ground Truth: The Future of U.S. Land Power, coauthored with Thomas Donnelly, was released in 2008 by the AEI Press. In 2006, he also published End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801–1805 (De Capo Books) and Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy (Encounter Books). Mr. Kagan was previously an associate professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. A contributing editor at The Weekly Standard, he has written numerous articles on defense and foreign policy issues for Foreign Affairs, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times, among other periodicals.

Michael A. Levi is the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is director of the CFR Program on Energy Security and Climate Change and was project director for the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on climate change. Mr. Levi was previously a nonresident science fellow and a science and technology fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution. Prior to that, he was director of the Federation of American Scientists' Strategic Security Project. His interests center on the intersection of science, technology, and foreign policy, including energy, climate, and nuclear security. Mr. Levi's recent publications include articles in Foreign Affairs and the CFR's journal. He is the author of On Nuclear Terrorism (Harvard University Press, 2007) and coauthor with Michael O'Hanlon of The Future of Arms Control (Brookings Institution Press, 2005). Mr. Levi has been invited to testify before Congress and to present expert scientific evidence to the National Academy of Sciences.

C. Raja Mohan holds the Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., during 2009–2010. He is the foreign affairs columnist for the Indian Express (New Delhi) and visiting professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Mr. Mohan was previously professor of South Asian studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He has served as the strategic affairs editor of the Indian Express, and the diplomatic editor and Washington correspondent of the Hindu. His columns also appear in the Yomiuri Shimbun (Tokyo) and the Oriental Morning Post (Shanghai). He was formerly a research associate at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, during 1983–92 and then a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C., during 1992–93. He was a member of India's National Security Advisory Board during 1998–2000 and 2004–2006. He led the Indian chapter of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs during 1999–2006. Mr. Mohan was a member of the United Nations Inter-Governmental Expert Group on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space from 1991 to 1992. His recent books include Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India's New Foreign Policy (Palgrave, 2004) and Impossible Allies: Nuclear India, United States and the Global Order (India Research Press, 2006). He is finishing a new book on the Sino-Indian maritime rivalry in the Indian and Pacific oceans.

Neena Shenai joined AEI as an adjunct scholar in April 2009. She focuses on the intersection of U.S. international trade and national security policy. Previously, Ms. Shenai was a senior adviser in the Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Before serving in the Bush administration, she was an attorney in the international trade group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Ms. Shenai has also worked in the Rules Division at the World Trade Organization and was a law clerk for Judge Evan J. Wallach at the U.S. Court of International Trade.

Daniel Twining is senior fellow for Asia at the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States. During the George W. Bush administration, he served as a member of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's policy planning staff, with responsibility for South Asia and regional issues in East Asia. He previously worked for over a decade for Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), including as his foreign policy adviser in the Senate. Mr. Twining has also been a Fulbright/Oxford Scholar at Oxford University, a Transatlantic Fellow and director of foreign policy at GMF, and a staff member of the U.S. trade representative. His work on South and East Asia and U.S. foreign policy has been published in newspapers, magazines, and peer-reviewed academic journals in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He lived and worked in India from 2006 to 2007.