Authors

  • James Watkins
    Former U.S. Navy Admiral

    James David Watkins (March 7, 1927 – July 26, 2012) was a United States Navy admiral and former Chief of Naval Operations who served as the U.S. Secretary of Energy during the George H. W. Bush administration, also chairing U.S. government commissions on HIV/AIDS and ocean policy. Watkins also served on the boards of various companies and other nongovernmental organizations and as the co-chair of the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative.

  • Brian Wilson
    Senior Lawyer for U.S. Navy
    Captain Brian Wilson is a senior navy lawyer who has previously served as oceans policy advisor at the Pentagon, developing Department of Defense policy on the law of the sea for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Director of Strategic Plans & Policy.
  • Thomas Wright
    Fellow, Foreign Policy, Managing Global Order
    Thomas Wright is a fellow at the Brookings Institution in the Managing Global Order project. Previously, he was executive director of studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and senior researcher for the Princeton Project on National Security

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