Mr. Cossa is the president of the Pacific Forum CSIS in Honolulu. He is a board member of the Council on U.S.-Korean Security Studies and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, as well as a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the ASEAN Regional Forum Experts and Eminent Persons Group, and a founding member of the Steering Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP). He is a political, military affairs, and national security specialist with more than 30 years of experience in formulating and implementing U.S. security policy in the Asia-Pacific and Near East-South Asia regions.