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Dr. James Schlesinger has held several high-level government positions, including Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Defense, Director of the CIA, and Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission. He is currently a senior advisor to Lehman Brothers, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Nixon Center, and counselor and trustee to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He presently serves as chairman of MITRE Corporation, as a director of BNFL, Inc., Peabody Energy, and Sandia Corporation.
Dr. Schlesinger graduated from Harvard University with an AB summa cum laude (1950), AM (1952), Ph.D. (1956). He has received the Dwight D. Eisenhower Distinguished Service Medal, the George Catlett Marshall Medal, the H. H. Arnold Award, the Navy League's National Meritorious Citation, the Military Order of the World Wars Distinguished Service Award, the Jimmy Doolittle Award, William Oliver Baker Award National Security Medal, five Department and Agency medals, and eleven honorary degrees. | 