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STEPHEN FLYNN
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies Council on
Foreign Relations
New York, NY

 

Stephen Flynn is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of the critically acclaimed The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation (Random House, 2007), and the national bestseller, America the Vulnerable (Harper Collins 2004). At the Council, Dr. Flynn directs an ongoing private sector working group on homeland security. He was the Director and principal author for the task force report America: Still Unprepared - Still in Danger, (2002) co-chaired by former Senators Gary Hart an Warren Rudman.

Dr. Flynn is a Consulting Professor at the Center of International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School's Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 9/11 he has provided testimony on nineteen occasions on Capital Hill. He has served as the principal advisor to the bipartisan Congressional Port Security Caucus and is a member of the Marine Board of the National Research Council.

He is a frequent media commentator and has appeared on Meet the Press, 60 Minutes, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, The Today Show, Nightline, the Charlie Rose Show, CNN and on National Public Radio. Three of his articles have been featured in the prestigious journal, Foreign Affairs. Excerpts of his books have been featured in Time, as the cover story for U.S. News & World Report, as as the subject of two CNN documentaries.

From August 2000 to February 2001, Dr. Flynn served as the lead consultant on the homeland security issue to the U.S. Commission on National (Hart-Rudman Commission). He has served in the White House Military Office during the George H. W. Bush administration ad as a director for Global Issues on the National Security Council staff during the Clinton administration.

A 1982 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Dr. Flynn served in the Coast Guard on active duty for 20 years, including two tours as commanding officer at sea, received several professional awards including the Legion of Merit, and retired at the rank of Commander. He received the M.A.L.D. and Phd. D. degrees in International Politics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University , in 1990 and 1991. He was a Guest Scholar in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brooking Institution from 1991-92, and 1993-94 he was an Annenberg Scholar-in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Flynn is the principal for Stephen E. Flynn Associates LLC, where he provides independent advisory services on improving enterprise resiliency and transportation and logistics security. He also serves on the advisory board for the Sand Diego-based Crossflo Systems.

Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Dr. Flynn lives in Connecticut with his wife JoAnn and their daughter Christina.

 

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