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Richard Fontaine (CEO of Center for a New American Security (CNAS))

Richard Fontaine

CEO of Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Richard Fontaine is the Chief Executive Officer of Center for a New Amercian Security (CNAS). He served as President of CNAS from 2012–19 and as Senior Fellow from 2009–12. Prior to CNAS, he was foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain and worked at the State Department, the National Security Council (NSC), and on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Fontaine served as foreign policy advisor to the McCain 2008 presidential campaign and subsequently as the minority deputy staff director on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Prior to that, he served as Associate Director for Near Eastern Affairs at the NSC from 2003–04. He also worked on Southeast Asian issues in the NSC’s Asian Affairs directorate.

Richard Iron CMG OBE (President at AIIA Victoria)

Richard Iron CMG OBE

President at AIIA Victoria

Richard Iron CMG OBE is President of AIIA Victoria. He previously served in the British Army in Northern Ireland, the Falkland Islands, Oman, the Balkans, Sierra Leone and Iraq. He was a visiting fellow at the Changing Character of War programme at the University of Oxford and was lead editor of "British Generals in Blair's Wars", and "How Wars End: Theory and Practice".