Richard Danzig is a Senior Advisor to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, a consultant to the Intelligence 
Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Chair of the Advisory Panel for Idaho National Laboratories’ Innovation 
Center, and a member of the Toyota Research Institute Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Defense Policy 
Board, The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, and the Homeland Security Secretary’s Advisory Council, a Trustee 
of Reed College and of the RAND Corporation, a Director of the Center for a New American Security and a Director of 
Saffron Hill Ventures (a European investment firm). 
In recent time he has been a director of National Semiconductor Corporation (NY Stock Exchange) and Human Genome 
Sciences Corporation (NASDAQ). He has also served as The Chairman of the Board of The Center for a New American 
Security, Vice Chair of RAND, and Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.  
Dr. Danzig served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy from November 1998 to January 2001.  He was the Under Secretary 
of the Navy between 1993 and 1997.  From the spring of 2007 through the Presidential election of 2008, Dr. Danzig was 
a senior advisor to Senator Obama on national security issues.
Dr. Danzig is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and has served in recent years as a consultant to the Departments 
of Defense and Homeland Security on national security issues. 
Dr. Danzig was born in New York City in 1944.  He received a B.A. degree from Reed College, a J.D. degree from Yale 
Law School, and Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University, where he was a 
Rhodes Scholar.  Upon his graduation from Yale, Dr. Danzig served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron 
White.