Kenneth M. Duberstein is chairman and CEO of The Duberstein Group, an independent strategic planning and consulting company. Mr. Duberstein previously served as Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan in 1988-89. During President Reagan’s two terms in office, he also served in the White House as Deputy Chief of Staff (1987), as well as both the Assistant and the Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs (1981-83). Prior to joining the Administration, he was Vice President and Director of Business-Government Relations of the Committee for Economic Development. He returned to the private sector between his various White House assignments as Vice President of Timmons & Company Inc, a government relations firm. His earlier government service included Deputy Under Secretary of Labor during the Ford Administration and Director of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. General Services Administration. He began his public service on Capitol Hill as an assistant to Senator Jacob K. Javits. Among the Board of Directors on which Mr. Duberstein serves are: The Boeing Company, ConocoPhillips, Inc., Mack-Cali Realty Corp. and The Travelers Companies, Inc. He is a Trustee of Franklin & Marshall College and serves as well on a wide range of commissions, task forces, and cultural, educational and volunteer boards, including the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, Harvard University/Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics Senior Advisory Committee, the National Endowment for Democracy, the American Security Project, the Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, and The American Council on Capital Formation. He also regularly appears as a commentator on network and cable news programs including Meet the Press, Nightline, This Week, Inside Politics, The News Hour, Nightly News and the Charlie Rose Show. He was awarded the President’s Citizens Medal by President Reagan in January 1989. Mr. Duberstein graduated from Franklin and Marshall College (A.B., 1965) and American University (M.A., 1966). He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Franklin and Marshall in 1989.