Participant Biographies

Richard Weitz

Senior Fellow, Center for Political-Military Analysis, Hudson Institute

Richard Weitz is senior fellow and director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute. His current research includes regional security developments relating to Europe, Eurasia, and East Asia as well as U.S. foreign, defense, and homeland security policies. Dr. Weitz is also a non-resident senior advisor at the Project on National Security Reform (PNSR), where he oversees case study research, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where he contributes to various defense projects. Dr. Weitz is a graduate of Harvard College, the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and Harvard University (Ph.D. in political science), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.