role: Senior Advisors

Lt Gen Wallace “Chip” Gregson (USMC, Ret.) is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow (Non-Resident) of Sasakawa USA.

Most recently he served he as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense, Asian and Pacific Security Affairs from May 2009 to April 2011. From 2006 until assuming the duties of Assistant Secretary of Defense, Lt Gen Gregson was owner and president of WCG & Associates International, a foreign policy and military affairs consulting organization.

From 2003 to 2005, he was commanding general of Marine Corps Forces Pacific and Marine Corps Forces Central Command, where he led and managed over 70,000 marines and sailors in the Middle East, Afghanistan, East Africa, Asia, and the United States. From 2001 to 2003, he served as commanding general of III Marine Expeditionary Force in Japan.

He received the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun – Gold and Silver Star, the Korean Order of National Security Merit Gukseon Medal, and the Republic of China Order of the Resplendent Banner with Yellow Sash for his active-duty service in Asia. Just prior to his service in Japan, he was director of Asia-Pacific policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1998 to 2000. A combat veteran of the Vietnam conflict, he earned the Bronze Star with Combat “V” device for valor and heroism, and the Purple Heart.

He is a senior advisor to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Group. He serves as executive advisor for Akira Corporation and Marubeni Corporation. He serves as a board member of the Japan America Society of Washington, DC; the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Foundation; and Peace Winds America.

Lt Gen serves as director, China and the Pacific, at the Center for the National Interest. He also serves as an advisor to the Global Taiwan Institute. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as a trustee at the Marine Corps University Foundation and is a past board member of the U.S. Naval Institute, where he has been a member for over 50 years.

He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1968 and served in Vietnam for 18 months in 1969 and 1970. He later obtained a master’s degrees in strategic planning from the Naval War College and in international relations from Salve Regina College. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Maryland Global Campus in Okinawa.

谷口智彦 筑波大学特命教授、富士通フューチャースタディーズ・センター特別顧問。

2020年9月16日に安倍晋三氏が首相を退任するまで、安倍晋三内閣の内閣官房参与を務めた。2013年2月から2014年3月にかけては内閣審議官。

週刊誌「日経ビジネス」に約20年在籍した後、2005年に外務省に入省、外務副報道官・広報文化交流部参事官となる。3年後に同省を去るまで、非日本語プレスに対するプレス・セクレタリーを務めるとともに、麻生太郎外相、安倍首相（いずれも当時）らの外交政策スピーチ原稿を担当した。

「日経ビジネス」誌在籍中の1997年から2000年まで、同誌特派員としてロンドンに滞在した。1999年、ロンドンの外国人記者協会で、会長に。"スエズ以東"から初。また、プリンストン大学ウッドロー・ウィルソン校（当時）でフルブライト客員研究員、上海国際問題研究院客座研究員、ブルッキングス研究所の招聘給費研究員など、ジャーナリストとしてのキャリアの中で、サバティカル（研究休暇）を過ごす

2008年8月～2013年1月まで、JR東海の常勤顧問を務め葛西敬之会長（当時、その後他界）に仕える一方、慶應義塾大学大学院システムデザイン・マネジメント研究科（SDM）で特別招聘教授、明治大学国際日本学部で客員教授を務める。2014年4月～2023年3月、慶應SDM教授（国際政治経済学、日本外交）。現在、前述の職位に加え、拓殖大学海外事情研究所客員教授、政策研究大学院大学政策研究院シニア・フェローを兼任。

東京大学法学部卒業、拓殖大学大学院博士（国家安全保障）、国際情勢に関する著書・共著は10冊以上。最新刊の1冊は、「安倍総理のスピーチ」。BBC、アルジャジーラ・イングリッシュ、CNN、CNA、TRTなどに何度も生出演している。

Dr. Snow is a strategic communications and global influence expert who specializes in messaging, speechwriting, public speaking and opinion writing on all things national interest. She is engaged in NATO’s Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence in Riga, Latvia and its journal, Defence Strategic Communications. She holds a doctorate from what Foreign Policy magazine identified as a Top 10-ranked International Relations program in the world, American University’s School of International Service in Washington, D.C..

She has published fifteen books in six languages on marketing foreign and defense policy. Snow was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Freiburg after graduating summa cum laude in political science from Clemson University. She holds Professor Emeritus faculty rank at California State University, Fullerton. She has held three faculty appointments in Japan as Pax Mundi Distinguished Professor of Public Diplomacy at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Abe Fellow and Visiting Research Professor at Keio University, and Fulbright Professor at Sophia University. Snow was founding faculty in two of the world’s leading public diplomacy master’s programs at Syracuse University and the University of Southern California.

She was a Presidential Management Fellow at the State Department and the U.S. Information Agency during the Clinton administration. Snow has served as a visiting professor in Israel, Malaysia, Korea, China, as well as Japan, where she holds residency.  

Dr. William Schneider, Jr. is a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute.  Dr. Schneider served as Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science, and Technology.  He previously served as Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget prior to be nominated as Under Secretary by President Ronald Reagan.

In addition, Dr. Schneider serves as an advisor to the U.S. Government in several capacities. He is currently an advisor to the Departments of Defense, Energy, and State as well as the intelligence community.  As a U.S. Senate appointee, Dr. Schneider recently served as a member of the Congressional Advisory Panel on the Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise.  He served as Chairman of the Defense Science Board (DSB) from 2001 to 2009 and currently serves as a member of the DSB.  Secretary of Defense Robert Gates awarded Dr. Schneider the DoD’s Medal for Distinguished Public Service in November 2009.  In 2018, Secretary of Defense James Mattis conferred the Fubini Award on Dr. Schneider for his “exemplary scientific and technical contributions” to the DoD mission. He also served on several commissions to review intelligence-related activities, including the “Rumsfeld Commission” (i.e., the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Mission Threat to the United States) on current and emerging ballistic missile threats to the United States as well as on a National Reconnaissance Office, and the Intelligence Community Strategic Studies Group under the Director of National Intelligence.  Dr. Schneider was the founder and former Chairman of the Department of State’s Defense Trade Advisory Group (1992-2018).  Previously, he served as Chairman of the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament from 1987 until 1993.  He serves as a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics.  Dr. Schneider was nominated by the President and in August 2019 was confirmed by the US Senate to serve as a Member of the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Dr. Schneider’s responsibilities at the Department of State included management of U.S. foreign economic and military assistance abroad, export control policy (including serving as Chairman of the Senior Interagency Group on the Transfer of Strategic Technology), international telecommunications and information policy (including serving as Chairman of the Senior Interagency Group on International Telecommunications and Information Policy), and supervision of U.S. science attaches posted at U.S. embassies.

Dr. Schneider is an economist and defense analyst who formerly was a staff associate of the Subcommittees on Defense and Foreign Operations for the Committee on Appropriations of the U.S. House of Representatives as well as a consultant to the Hudson Institute.  Prior to joining the House staff, he was a Senate staff member and professional staff member of the Hudson Institute.

Dr. Schneider received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1968.  He is a member of the American Economic Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

現在、ニューデリーにある国立海事財団（NMF）の事務局長を務める。同財団は、インドの海洋権益を促進・保護するための戦略を開発・提唱するインド随一のリソースセンターであり、プラディープ・チャウハン副提督はAVSM & Bar, VSMの学位を取得した人物である。   

The admiral retired on 30 November 2013 after an illustrious four-decade-long career in the Executive Branch of the Indian Navy.  He has had a rich and varied naval career, which included a three-year deputation to the Government of Mauritius, where he set up and commanded the Mauritius National Coast Guard.  He has been the principal evaluator of the Navy’s battle-tactics, the Head of the Naval Training Team at the Defence Services Staff College, and the Principal Director of Naval Operations.  

His sea-going service incorporates command-appointments on four occasions, including the guided-missile frigate, INS Brahmaputra, and, culminating in his command of the aircraft carrier, the Viraat.  As a Flag Officer, he was the Navy’s first Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Foreign Cooperation & Intelligence), where he conceptualised and executed the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS).  

As a Vice Admiral, he has been Chief of Staff of the Western Naval Command; and was, in his last naval appointment before retirement, the Commandant of the Indian Naval Academy (Ezhimala).  He has been commended three times by the President of India for sustained distinguished service. 

Admiral Chauhan has remained active after retirement and is a much sought-after thought-leader, leadership mentor, and an outstanding orator.  Apart from being on the visiting faculty of the higher-command establishments of all three of India’s defence services, as also tri-service establishments such as the College of Defence Management, Hyderabad and the National Defence College, New Delhi, he has also been advising the government through his interaction with the Integrated Headquarters of the Ministry of Defence (Navy), the Ministry of External Affairs, the National Security Council Secretariat, and the Joint Intelligence Committee.  

また、アナンタ・アスペン・センター、戦略安全保障研究フォーラム、アドバンスド戦略安全保障研究センターなどの重要なシンクタンクのアドバイザーやフェローとして、85以上の専門論文や記事を発表しています。

Nobukatsu Kanehara served at the highest levels in the Government of Japan, where he was recognized as a leading diplomat and strategic voice on international affairs. He offers nuanced insights into Japanese national security priorities, as well as domestic political and policy dynamics.

Kanehara is a Senior Advisor to The Asia Group, based in Japan. Most recently, he served as Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe from 2012 to 2019. In 2013, Mr. Kanehara also became the inaugural Deputy Secretary-General of the National Security Secretariat, a role which he held until his retirement from government service in 2019. He also served as Deputy Director of the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office.

Mr. Kanehara’s role in the Cabinet built on a distinguished career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he served in a number of notable positions. These included the Director-General of Bureau of International Law, Deputy Director-General of the Foreign Policy Bureau, Ambassador in charge of the United Nations and Human Rights, Deputy Director-General of European Affairs in charge of Russia and Eastern Europe, Director of the Ministry’s Policy Coordination Division, the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty Division. He served abroad as Deputy Chief of Mission in Seoul, Republic of Korea, Minister at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, the United States and Minister of the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations.

Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Mr. Kanehara entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs following his graduation from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Law in 1981. Early during his career at the Ministry, he studied at the École Nationale d’Administration in France. He is the author of Senryaku Gaiko Genron: A Grand Strategy of Japan for the 21st Century (2011, Nihon-keizai-shinbumsha). He contributed an article titled “The power of Japan and its grand strategy” to Japan’s World Power  edited by Professor Guibourg Delamotte (2019, Routledge). He currently teaches at Doshisha University’s Faculty of Law as professor and has previously taught at the Faculty of Law and the Graduate School of Law at Waseda University. He is proficient in French, as well as Japanese and English. He was decorated by the president of Republic of France with Ordre de la Legion d’Honneur.

Kenneth R. Weinstein, a noted expert on international affairs and global security, is the Walter P. Stern Distinguished Fellow at Hudson Institute.

From 2011 through 2020, Dr. Weinstein served as president and chief executive officer of Hudson Institute.  He joined the Institute in 1991, was appointed CEO in June 2005, and was named president and CEO in March 2011. Under his leadership since 2005, Hudson Institute grew significantly in size, prominence, visibility and impact, recruiting top-flight talent and advising officials around the globe.

Dr. Weinstein has written widely for publications in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, and the Yomiuri Shimbun. In 2006, he was decorated with a knighthood in arts and letters by the government of France. He serves on boards and advisory boards of organizations in the U.S., Asia, and Europe.

From January 2017 until May 2020, Dr. Weinstein chaired the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the oversight body for U.S. Agency for Global Media, and was chair of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Middle East Broadcasting and the Open Technology Fund.

He is the co-editor of The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking (Lexington Books, 2009).

Dr. Weinstein serves on the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations, which provides counsel on trade agreements to United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai. In March 2020, he was nominated by President Trump to serve as U.S. ambassador to Japan. His nomination was reported unanimously out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in September 2020.

Dr. Weinstein earned his B.A. in General Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago, D.E.A. in Soviet and Eastern European Studies from Sciences-Po Paris, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.