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Michèle A. Flournoy

Michèle A. Flournoy is senior adviser in the CSIS International Security Program, where she works on a broad range of defense policy and international security issues. She has previously worked as a distinguished research professor at the National Defense University, where she founded and led the university's Quadrennial Defense Review working group. Before that, she was dual-hatted as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and threat reduction, and deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy. In this capacity, she oversaw three policy offices in the Office of the Secretary of Defense: Strategy; Requirements, Plans, and Counterproliferation; and Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasian Affairs. Ms. Flournoy was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 1996 and the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 1998. She holds degrees from Harvard and Oxford.