Speakers

Gary J. Schmitt is a resident scholar in strategic studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). In addition, Dr. Schmitt directs AEI’s Program on American Citizenship, which focuses on constitutional and civic issues. Dr. Schmitt served as minority staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He was also executive director of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the White House.

He is the author, coauthor, editor, and coeditor of many books. The most recent are: Rise of the Revisionists: Russia, China, and Iran (AEI Press, 2018); A Hard Look at Hard Power: Assessing the Defense Capabilities of Key US Allies and Security Partners (Strategic Studies Institute, 2015); The Imperial Presidency and the Constitution (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017); & Is Congress Broken? The Virtues and Defects of Partisanship and Gridlock (Brookings Institution Press, 2017).

Dr. Schmitt has a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in politics from the University of Dallas.