Dr. Harlan Kenneth Ullman
Senior Associate, International Security Program -- Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
Dr. Harlan Ullman will discuss his latest book "America`s Promise Restored--Preventing Culture, Crusade and Partisanship from Wrecking Our Nation." The book is provocative and tough. It shows how and why government is broken and, through six big ideas, offers ways to fix it. The book has received powerful endorsements from Colin Powell, John Kerry, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, among other notables including former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and NATO Commander General George Joulwan.
Dr. Ullman is a senior advisor with CSIS. His expertise spans national security, foreign policy, terror, defense, economics, and finance as well as Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. A columnist for the
Washington Times, he is a frequent commentator in U.S. and international media including Fox, BBC, and Al Jazeera TV.
An honors graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Dr. Ullman completed more than 150 combat missions and patrols in Vietnam as a Swift boat skipper and later commanded a destroyer in the Persian Gulf. With a Ph.D. in international affairs, finance, and economics, he has been an academic and businessman as well as an adviser to the most senior levels of government and the private sector.
He is also principal author of the doctrine of “shock and awe,” but not the variant used by the Pentagon. After leaving naval service, he joined CSIS as senior fellow and director of the Political-Military and Strategy Programs and began consulting with a number of Fortune 100 companies. Elected to the board of the Wall Street Fund, he later formed his own company, the Killowen Group, a consulting firm with broad financial interests. He has served on the boards of several related investment and venture capital companies with holdings in Asia and as senior partner and vice chairman of two companies in the high-technology area.
Dr. Ullman is currently chairman of the advisory board of a company engaged in Smart Zone Management and homeland security, serves at the Center for Naval Analyses, where he chairs the Senior Seminar and is a senior fellow and is on the advisory boards for U.S. European Command and the NATO Defence College.
