Chuck Hagel
Distinguished Professor, Georgetown University, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Director since 2010
Chuck Hagel is a distinguished professor at Georgetown University and the University of Nebraska at Omaha, a position he has held since 2009. Also in 2009, he became chairman of the Atlantic Council and co-chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
Prior Positions Held: From 1997 to 2009, Hagel served as a U.S. senator from Nebraska. During his tenure in the U.S. Senate, Hagel served on the Foreign Relations; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Intelligence; and the Energy and Natural Resources committees. He served as chairman of the Foreign Relations International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion Subcommittee; the Banking Committee's International Trade and Finance Subcommittee and the Securities Subcommittee. He also served as chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and the Senate Climate Change Observer Group. Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, Hagel was president of McCarthy & Company, an investment banking firm in Omaha, Nebraska. In the mid-1980s, Hagel co-founded VANGUARD Cellular Systems, Inc., a publicly traded corporation.
Other Directorships and Memberships: member, Secretary of Defense's Policy Board; member, Secretary of Energy's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future; co-chair of the President's 100,000 Strong Initiative; director, Zurich Holding Company of America; Public Broadcasting Service Board of Directors; and numerous other private advisory boards including Corsair Capital, Deutsche Bank Americas and Gallup.
Updated: October 2011