Robert Hunter

Wesleyan U in Connecticut, then seven years at the London School of Economics on a Fulbright for my PhD (international relations), including two years of teaching. Took a year off to work in the LBJ White House as assistant to the president's key aide on education (the "Great Society"), plus a few months off to write speeches for Hubert Humphrey in the '68 campaign.

Back home in 1970 and in Washington ever since. Overseas Development Council for three years, then Ted Kennedy's foreign policy advisor in the Senate for three and a half. Did foreign policy in the McGovern and Carter campaigns. Joined the Carter National Security Council staff in the White House on Inauguration Day '77, in charge of European issues for two years and then the Middle East until the next Inauguration Day. On to a think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) for 12 years (Europe and the Middle East), plus wrote a lot of "op-ed" articles. Worked for Mondale's presidential campaign, then Dukakis, then Bill Clinton I. US ambassador to NATO (Brussels) for the next four and a half years, '93-'98. Since then at another think tank, the RAND Corporation. Also chairman of a little NGO, the Center for a Community of Democracies. President of the Atlantic Treaty Association (Brussels Hq.), the umbrella organization for NATO's 42 Atlantic Councils. Consulting for Lockheed Martin; service on some Pentagon and NATO advisory groups; Gore presidential campaign ('00); now supporting Obama. French Legion of Honor.

Married on St. Patrick's Day and Bastille Day 1980 to Shireen Tahmasseb, former diplomat (and first woman) in the Shah of Iran's foreign service. PhD. from Institut Universitaires des Hauts Etudes Internationales (Geneva). Just finished her 13th book ("Reform Movements in Islam"). CSIS for 22 years and now Visiting Professor at Georgetown U.

Weekend house near the Delaware shore for 20 years, now a second home in Naples, Fl. Two (great) cocker spaniels! Keep in close touch with Buddy Wides and Don Mason.

"Four flushers," what else??

"Now let us sing the DMHS School Song" (forgive me, everyone!)