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Henry Rowen
Henry Rowen, 79, is an expert on international security, economic development,
Asian economics and politics. Rowen, a senior fellow at the conservative
Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is a professor of public policy
and management emeritus at the university's business school.
Rowen earned a bachelor's degree in industrial management from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1949 and a master's in Economics from Oxford University
in 1955. Upon graduation, Rowen worked for the RAND Corp. as an economist,
primarily focusing on national security issues, from 1950 and 1953, and again
from 1955 to 1960.
He entered government service when appointed the deputy assistant secretary
of defense for international security affairs from 1961 to 1964, during which
he was responsible for European policy. The next year, Rowen moved on to serve
as assistant director of U.S. Bureau of Budget until 1966. Rowen returned to
RAND in 1967 as its president, a post he held until 1972.
In 1972, he became a professor of public management at the Graduate School
of Business at Stanford University, but took leave in 1981 when he was appointed
chairman of the National Intelligence Council, a division within the CIA. Rowen
held that position until 1983.
He returned to government service in 1989, taking a position as assistant
secretary of defense for international security affairs in the first Bush administration
-- a post he held until 1991.
Rowen also has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International
Institute for Strategic Studies, and was a founding member of the Project for
the New American Century, a neo-conservative think tank, in 1997.
Rowen has been a member of the Defense Department's Policy Board, which advises
national leaders on major matters of defense policy, since 2002.
The current President Bush appointed Rowen on Feb. 13, 2004, nearly a week
after naming the first seven members of the special commission.
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Compiled by Meghann Farnsworth for the Online NewsHour
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