Jack Kemp is Chairman of Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. His work in defense of the information sector of our economy is based on the premise that government's role in a thriving new enterprise should be very limited at most, leaving the free market to sort things out whenever possible.

Throughout his career Kemp has also been one of the nation's leading advocates for strong economic growth, free markets, free trade, and tax simplification and lower tax rates on both work and investment. He is also the first and strongest advocate for revitalizing our cities by establishing Enterprise Zones to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation in urban America and of expanding homeownership among low income people through resident management and ownership of public housing. Mr. Kemp serves on the Boards of several technology companies including Oracle and Proxicom.

In 1996, Jack Kemp gained even further prominence in the national spotlight when Senator Bob Dole named him as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate. The nomination was testimony to Mr. Kemp's impact on the tax and economic debate for the '96 campaign through his role as chairman of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform - a group appointed to study how major restructuring of our tax code can help unleash the entrepreneurial spirit of Americans, expand the economy without inflation, and create opportunity for people to escape poverty.

Prior to founding Empower America, Mr. Kemp served for four years as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and proved to be one of our nation's most innovative leaders in that role. Before his appointment to the Cabinet, Mr. Kemp represented the Buffalo area and Western New York for 18 years in the United States House of Representatives. Mr. Kemp spent 13 years in professional football, playing quarterback for the San Diego Chargers and the Buffalo Bills. He led the Buffalo Bills to the American Football League championship in 1964 and 1965 when he was named the League's most valuable player. He also co-founded the AFL Players Association and was elected president for five terms. He is on the Board of Habitat for Humanity and Chairman of Habitat's National Campaign for Rebuilding our Communities. Mr. Kemp and his wife Joanne have been blessed with 4 children and 12 grandchildren.

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Steve Forbes
Board Member - CEO Forbes Magazine

Steve Forbes is President and Chief Executive Officer of Forbes and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine.
Mr. Forbes assumed his position in 1990. Since that time, Forbes has expanded, launching a variety of new publications and businesses. They include: Forbes FYI, the irreverent lifestyle supplement; Forbes ASAP featuring Best of The Web, the technology supplement for management decision-makers; Forbes Global, the magazine's international publication, introduced in 1998; a Japanese-language edition of Forbes', Forbes Brasil, a Portuguese-language edition serving Latin America's largest economy; and the Gilder Technology Report.

In 1997 Forbes entered the new media arena with the launch of Forbes.com. Now receiving an average of four million visits a month, it has become a leading destination site for business decision-makers and investors.

Other company divisions include: Forbes Management Conference Group; and Forbes Custom Communications Partners.

Mr. Forbes is also Chairman of the company's American Heritage division, publisher of American Heritage magazine and two quarterlies, American Legacy and American Heritage of Invention & Technology.

The company's flagship publication, Forbes, is the nation's leading business magazine, with a circulation of 900,000. Forbes and Forbes Global together reach a worldwide audience of nearly five million readers.

Mr. Forbes writes editorials for each issue of Forbes, under the heading of "Fact and Comment." A widely respected economic prognosticator, he is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times. The prize was formerly given by USX Corporation to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts for the coming year proved most accurate.

In both 1996 and 2000, Mr. Forbes campaigned vigorously for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits and a strong national defense. Mr. Forbes will continue to energetically promote this agenda.

From 1996 to 1999 Steve Forbes was Honorary Chairman of Americans for Hope, Growth and Opportunity, a grassroots, issues advocacy organization founded to advance pro-growth, pro-freedom and pro-family issues. From December 1993, until June 1996, Mr. Forbes served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Empower America, a political reform organization founded by Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett and Jeane Kirkpatrick.

Mr. Forbes is the author of A New Birth of Freedom (Regnery, 1999), a book of bold ideas for the new millennium.

In 1985, President Reagan named Mr. Forbes Chairman of the bi-partisan Board for International Broadcasting (BIB). In this position, he oversaw the operation of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. Broadcasting behind the Iron Curtain, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were praised by Poland's Lech Walesa as being critical to the struggle against communism. Mr. Forbes was reappointed to his post by President George H. W. Bush and served until 1993.

Steve Forbes was born on July 18, 1947, in Morristown, New Jersey. He graduated cum laude in 1966 from Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. in history from Princeton in 1970. At Princeton, he was the founding editor of Business Today, which became the country's largest magazine published by students for students, with a circulation of 200,000. The magazine continues to be published today by Princeton undergraduates.

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Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Board Member - Fmr. Ambassador to the UN

Jeane Kirkpatrick was the first woman appointed to serve as Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations and as a member of Ronald Reagan's Cabinet and National Security Council (1981-85). She also served as a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAD) (1985 -90), the Defense Policy Review Board (1985-93), and chaired the Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and Risk Reduction (FARR) (1991-92).

For this and related government service, Dr. Kirkpatrick was awarded the Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civilian honor -- in May 1985, and received her second Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal -- the highest civilian honor of the Department of Defense -- in December 1992.

For her work on NATO enlargement, Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic, awarded her the “Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Order”, the Czech Republic State Decoration (1998); and H.E. Arpad Göncz, President of Hungary, presented her with the Hungarian Presidential Gold Medal (1999). On other issues she received, the 50th Anniversary Friend of Zion Award from the Prime Minister of Israel (1998); the Casey Medal of Honor from the Center for Security Studies (1998); King of Morocco awarded her “Grand Officier Du Wissam Al Alaoui” medal (2000); and the Librarian of the Library of Congress presented her the “Living Legends” medal (2000) .

Dr. Kirkpatrick has received many other awards and decorations including: the award of the Commonwealth Fund; the Gold Medal of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; the Hubert H. Humphrey Award of the American Political Science Association; the Christian A. Herter Award of the Boston World Affairs Association; the Morgenthau Award of the American Council on Foreign Policy; the Humanitarian Award of B'nai B'rith; the Defender of Jerusalem Award; and many honorary degrees from more than a dozen and a half universities.

After her service in the U.S. government, she returned to her previous positions as Leavey Professor of Government at Georgetown University and as Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Dr. Kirkpatrick also writes and speaks on a range of issues of foreign policy and security affairs and participates in the ongoing dialogue on pubic issues.

Dr. Kirkpatrick's published works include: Good Intentions (forthcoming 2001), The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State (1990); Legitimacy and Force (2 vols.); The Reagan Phenomenon; Dictatorships & Double Standards; Dismantling the Parties: Reflections on Party Reform and Party Decomposition; The New Presidential Elite; Political Woman; and Leader and Vanguard in Mass Society: A Study of Peronist Argentina. She is also the author of numerous articles.

Dr. Kirkpatrick received an A.B. from Barnard College, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, and studied at the Institute de Science Politique in Paris.

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R. James Woolsey
Fmr. Director of the CIA

R. James Woolsey joined FDD in August, 2002, as a Distinguished Advisor. Previously Mr. Woolsey was a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C., where he practiced for twenty-two years, on four occasions, beginning in1973; his practice was in the fields of civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and corporate transactions.

During the twelve years he has served in the U.S. Government Mr. Woolsey has held Presidential appointments in two Democratic and two Republican administrations. He was Director of Central Intelligence in 1993-95. He also served as: Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989-1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977-1979; and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970-73. He was appointed by the President as Delegate at Large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST), and served in that capacity on a part-time basis in Geneva, 1983-1986. As an officer in the U.S. Army he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969-1970.

Mr. Woolsey has been a Director or Trustee of numerous civic organizations, including The Smithsonian Institution, where he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents, Stanford University, The Goldwater Scholarship Foundation, and The Aerospace Corporation. He has been a member of: The National Commission on Terrorism, 1999-2000; The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998; The President's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989; The President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), 1985-1986; and The President's Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission), 1983. He is currently a Trustee of The Center for Strategic & International Studies; Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Clean Fuels Foundation; and Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board of Global Options LLC.

Mr. Woolsey is presently a member of the Board of Directors or Board of Managers of: Information Systems Laboratories, Inc. (ISL); Linsang Partners, LLC; Fibersense Technology Corporation; Invicta Networks, Inc.; DIANA, LLC; and Agorics, Inc. He has served in the past as a member of the Boards of Directors of: BC International Corporation; Sun HealthCare Group, Inc.; USF&G; Yurie Systems, Inc.; Martin Marietta; British Aerospace, Inc.; Fairchild Industries; Titan Corporation; and DynCorp, and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.

Mr. Woolsey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1941. He is married to Suzanne Haley Woolsey, the Chief Communications Officer of the National Academies (Science, Engineering, and Medicine) and they have three sons: Robert, Daniel, and Benjamin. Mr. Woolsey attended Tulsa public schools, graduating from Tulsa Central High School in 1959. He received his B.A. Degree in 1963 from Stanford University (With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar 1963-65, and an LL.B from Yale Law School in 1968, where he was Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Mr. Woolsey is a frequent contributor to major publications, and from time to time gives public speeches, on the subjects of foreign affairs, defense, energy, and intelligence.