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Stephen Hadley

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Stephen Hadley is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Senior Advisor for international affairs at the United States Institute of Peace. He served as the National Security Advisor to the president for four years until 2009 and as the assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. During his office, Hadley specializes in security issues including U.S. relations with Russia, the Israeli disengagement from Gaza, developing a strategic relationship with India and ballistic missile defense. Prior to this position, Hadley was both a partner in the Washington D.C. law firm of Shea and Gardner and a principal in The Scowcroft Group. Hadley graduated from Cornell University and received his J.D. degree from Yale Law School.
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