Richard Jeffrey Danzig was born on September 8,1944 and is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton.
15 Facts About Richard Danzig
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Richard Danzig served as an advisor of the President Barack Obama during his presidential campaign and was later the chairman of the national security think-tank, the Center for a New American Security.
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Between 1972 and 1977, Richard Danzig taught contract law at Stanford and Harvard Universities.
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Richard Danzig was awarded a Prize Fellowship of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.
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Between 1977 and 1981, Richard Danzig served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and then as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Logistics.
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Richard Danzig served as deputy chair of the firm's International Practice Group, and as director of its Japan Group.
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Richard Danzig was a director of the National Semiconductor Corporation, a trustee of Reed College, and interim director of litigation and then vice chairman of the International Human Rights Law Group.
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Richard Danzig served as the Under Secretary of the Navy from November 1993 to May 1997.
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In 1994, Richard Danzig was elected as a fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration.
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In 2007 and 2008, Richard Danzig worked for Senator Obama's campaign as an advisor on national security issues.
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Richard Danzig has been a director of National Semiconductor Corporation and Human Genome Sciences Corporation.
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In 2014, Richard Danzig delivered the fifth Sloan Foundation Cyber Security Lecture at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, based on his publication "Surviving on a Diet of Poisoned Fruit: Reducing the National Security Risks of America's Cyber Dependencies".
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Richard Danzig is currently chairman of the board of directors of the Center for a New American Security, an independent think tank.
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Richard Danzig is a member of the Defense Policy Board, a federal advisory committee to the United States Department of Defense, and is a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
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Richard Danzig served as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.