Principal, The RiceHadley Group

Program:
Aspen Strategy Group

Biography

Stephen Hadley is a principal at The RiceHadley Group, an international strategic consulting firm founded with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.  Mr. Hadley previously served first as Deputy National Security Advisor and then as National Security Advisor in the administration of George W. Bush.  Before joining the Bush administration, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea & Gardner and a principal in the Scowcroft Group, an international business advisory firm.  Mr. Hadley served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy under then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney from 1989-1993 and in a variety of other capacities in the defense and national security field, including as Counsel to the Special Review Board established by President Reagan to inquire into U.S. arms sales to Iran (the “Tower Commission”), as a member of the National Security Council staff under President Ford, and as an analyst for the Comptroller of the Department of Defense. Currently, Mr. Hadley is a Senior Advisor on International Affairs at the United States Institute of Peace and a member of the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University and received a J.D. degree from Yale Law School.  He is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group.