ConocoPhillips White House Lecture Series - 3/27/2000
Brent Scowcroft
Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft (USAF, Retired) is founder and President of the Forum for International Policy, a non-partisan, non-profit organization providing independent perspectives and opinions on major foreign policy issues, based on a commitment to active, thoughtful American global leadership. He is also President of the Scowcroft Group, Inc., a consulting firm assisting corporations engaged in international expansion and investment. General Scowcroft is Chairman, Board of Directors of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation.
General Scowcroft served as Assistant to the President for national security affairs to Presidents Ford and Bush. He also served as Military Assistant to Presidents Ford and Nixon. Prior to joining the Bush Administration, General Scowcroft was Vice-Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc..
In the course of his military career, General Scowcroft has held positions in the organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Headquarters of the U.S. Air Force, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Other assignments included faculty positions at the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and Assistant Air Attache in the American Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
General Scowcroft has chaired or served on numerous policy advisory councils, including the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control, the President's Commission on Strategic Forces, the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management, and the President's Special Review Board (Tower Board) investigating the Iran-Contra affair. His is currently a trustee of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation, the George C. Marshall Foundation, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Rand, International Republican Institute, and Chairman of the Board of the CSIS/Pacific Forum, the Atlantic Council of the United States and the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is also a member of the Board of the National Defense University. He serves as a director on the boards of Pennzoil and Qualcomm corporations.
General Scowcroft had an aeronautical rating as a pilot and has numerous military decorations and awards. In addition, President Bush presented him with the Medal of Freedom Award in 1991. In 1993, he was presented with the insignia of an Honorary Knight of the British Empire (K.B.E.) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.
General Scowcroft was born in Ogden, Utah. He received his undergraduate degree and commission in the Army Air Forces from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. He received his masters and doctorate degree in international relations from Columbia University.
General Scowcroft was married to the late Marian Horner Scowcroft and has one daughter.