Stanley A. Weiss is Founder and Chairman of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a national, nonpartisan organization of U.S. business leaders who develop practical, business-like measures to help resolve national security problems.
Mr. Weiss has written widely on public policy matters, with articles in numerous publications including the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Washington Times.
His book, Manganese: The Other Uses, is the definitive work on the non-metallurgical uses of manganese.
A former fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs, Mr. Weiss is the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Point Park College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Harman International Industries, a member of the Advisory Board of RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council for Excellence in Government, the American Ditchley Foundation, the United Nations Association of the USA, the International Institute for Strategic Studies — and the Royal Institute in the UK.
Mr. Weiss is married with two children. He divides his time between his residence in London and his office in Washington DC.

Paul Michael Kennedy CBE, DPhil, FBA (born 1945), is a British historian specializing in international relations and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles.
Kennedy was born in Wallsend, Northumberland, and attended St. Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle. Subsequently, he graduated with first class honours in history from University of Newcastle and obtained his doctorate from St. Antony's College, Oxford. He was a member of the History Department at the University of East Anglia between 1970 and 1983. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a former Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. In 2007-8, Kennedy was the Phillipe Roman Professor of History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics.
He is the J. Richardson Dilworth professor of British history at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is also the Director of International Security Studies and along with John Lewis Gaddis and Charles Hill, teaches the Studies in Grand Strategy course there.
His most famous book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, has been translated into 23 languages and assesses the interaction between economics and strategy over the past five centuries. The book was incredibly well received by fellow historians, with A.J.P. Taylor labelling it "An encyclopaedia in itself" and Sir Michael Howard crediting it as "a deeply humane book in the very best sense of the word".[1][2]
His most recent book is The Parliament of Man, in which he contemplates the past and future of the United Nations.
He is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and writes for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and many foreign-language newspapers and magazines. His monthly column on current global issues is distributed worldwide by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media Services.[3]
He was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2001. The National Maritime Museum awarded him its Caird Medal in 2005 for his contributions to naval history.

Dr. Albert Summers Senior Fellow and Economic Consular The Conference Board