Trivia

Former 2008 John McCain campaign advisor.

Former CIA director (1993-1995).

Chairman, Woolsey Partners, LLC.

Chairman, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

Former U.S. Undersecretary of the Navy (1977-1979).

Graduated in 1963 with a BA from Stanford University with high honors and membership in Phi Beta Kappa.

Joined the board of directors for The Arlington Institute in 1992.

Graduated from Tulsa Central High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989–1991.

General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970–1973.

Member of the International Advisory Board of NGO Monitor.

Patron of the Henry Jackson Society, a British think tank.

Worked at the Shea & Gardner law firm, as Associate (1973–1977) and partner (1979–1989, 1991–1993).

Advisor (during military service) on the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT 1), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969–1970.

Past chairman of the Freedom House board of trustees.

Founding Member of the Set America Free Coalition.

Co-founder of the United States Energy Security Council.

Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton for Global Strategic Security.

Son of Clyde (Kirby) and Robert James Woolsey Sr.

Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study in England. He graduated in 1965 with a MA from St John's College, Oxford.

Member of the Board of Advisors for America of the Global Panel Foundation based in Berlin, Copenhagen, Prague, Sydney and Toronto.

His career included time as a professional lawyer, venture capitalist, and investor in the private sector.

Graduated in 1968 with a LLB from Yale University.

In 2008 he joined VantagePoint Venture Partners as a venture partner.

Wrote the foreword to 50 Simple Steps to Save the Earth from Global Warming.

Served as Chancellor at The Institute of World Politics.

Founding member of the Set America Free Coalition.

Was a venture partner in the firm Lux Capital.

In July 2011, in cooperation with Robert McFarlane, co-founded the United States Energy Security Council.

In a July 2007 interview with The Futurist magazine he argued that U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil ranks "very high" as a national security concern.

On the board of advisors for the Fuel Freedom Foundation.

Sat on the advisory board for nonprofit America Abroad Media.

Member of the Project for the New American Century and was one of the signatories to the January 26, 1998, letter sent to President Clinton that called for the removal of Saddam Hussein.

Advisor to the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, a think tank focused on energy security.

Received an honorary doctorate from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC in 2011.

Was a descendant of George (Joris) Woolsey, one of the earliest settlers of New Amsterdam, and Thomas Cornell.

Served on the board of directors for Silicon Valley solar energy start-up Siva Power, which claims it can manufacture the lowest-cost solar panels in the world.

Sat on the Strategic Advisory Board for Genie Energy with Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, and Lord Jacob Rothschild. Genie is known for discovering a "massive" oil stratum in Syria's Golan Heights near Israel.

Was a board member and vice-chairman of The Jamestown Foundation.

On the board of directors for the electric vehicle advocacy group Plug In America.

Was a member of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya.

In 1998 he served on the Rumsfeld Commission, which investigated the threat of ballistic missiles for the U.S. Congress.

Served in the United States Army.

Independent non-executive director of Imperial Pacific.

Was a keynote speaker at the EELPJ symposium on wind energy and biofuels in Houston, Texas, on February 23, 2007, during which he outlined his national security arguments in favor of moving away from fossil fuels.

Delegate at Large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST), Geneva, 1983–1986.

Member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) Board of Advisors, Advisor of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security.