Ronald Lehman
 Ronald Lehman     | |
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| Born | March 25, 1946 |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Claremont McKenna College, Claremont Graduate University |
| Member of | Le Cercle |
US expert on foreign nations' nuclear weapons. Visited Le Cercle in 1989.
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Ambassador Ronald Frank Lehman II was Director of the Center for Global Security Research at the United States Department of Energy's nuclear Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Specializing in nuclear weapons strategy, he visited Le Cercle in 1989.
Education
Lehman was educated at Claremont McKenna College (B.A., 1968) and then Claremont Graduate University with an M.A. degree in 1969 and a Ph.D. degree in 1975,[1] the same year he went to Washington, D.C., as a fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University to begin his career in international arms control, disarmament, and the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Career
He was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (now Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs) from 1988 to 1989 and then Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency between 1989 and 1993. From 1985 to 1988, he worked in the State Department as U.S. Chief Negotiator on Strategic Offensive Arms (START I) in Geneva. He has also worked as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, senior director on the National Security Council, professional staff of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, and in Vietnam with the United States Army.
Lehman testified regularly before the U.S. Congress and was on the advisory board of the United States Institute of Peace. In 1995, he was appointed to the five-member President's Advisory Board on Arms Proliferation Policy.[2][3]
He has worked for three U.S. Presidents (Reagan, Bush, and Clinton), three Secretaries of State, three Secretaries of Defense, and three National Security Advisors in a variety of senior executive and advisory positions.[4][5] Lehman worked closely with President Reagan for many years.
He is also Chair of the Governing Board of International Science and Technology Center, an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Moscow and is a member of the Department of Defense Threat Reduction Advisory Committee.[6][4]
He was the 1988 CGU Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient.[7]
References
- ↑ "Nominations before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Second Session, 100th Congress". Vol. 100, no. 991. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1989. p. 43.
- ↑ Appointment of Ronald F. Lehman II as an Executive Branch Commissioner-Observer on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
- ↑ Reagan Picks New Arms Expert Associated Press, January 27, 1988
- ↑ a b RONALD LEHMAN II '68: Arms Control and Political Change, Claremont McKenna College
- ↑ Center for Global Security Research
- ↑ Director, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Atoms For Peace Conference
- ↑ CGU Distinguished Alumni Award
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