Craig Gordon Dunkerley is a Senior Foreign Service Officer holding the personal rank of Minister-Counselor. He is currently serving as Special Envoy of the Secretary of State for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). As such he oversees consultations and negotiations for the adaptation of the 30-nation CFE Treaty. After earlier postings in East Asia, he has more recently served as Political Adviser to the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels, Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, and Director of the Office of European Security and Political Affairs within the Department of State.

Mr. Holum served as a defense and foreign policy adviser in the 1992 Clinton Presidential Campaign and assisted in the Clinton Presidential Transition. He also served as Executive Director of the Platform drafting committee and the platform committee for the 1992 Democratic National Convention. From 1981 to 1993, he practiced law in the Washington office of O'Melveny and Myers, concentrating on regulatory and international matters. He served on the Policy Planning Staff in the Department of State from 1979 to 1981, working on arms control and legal issues.

From 1965 to 1979, Mr. Holum was a member of Senator George McGovern's staff where he served as legislative director and managed the Senator's work on the Foreign Relations Committee. He served as issues director for Senator McGovern in the 1972 presidential primaries, and as chief speechwriter in the general election campaign.

Born December 4, 1940, in Highmore, South Dakota, Mr. Holum grew up on a family farm. His undergraduate education at Northern State Teachers College was in mathematics and physical sciences. Mr. Holum earned his J.D., with honors, at George Washington University School of Law in 1970.

Mr. Holum is married to Barbara P. Holum, a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and has one daughter, Tracy Lynn. He enjoys sailing, flying, scuba diving, and playing bluegrass/country music.

Mr. Korb served as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations and Logistics) from 1981 through 1985. In that position, he administered about 70 percent of the defense budget. For his service in that position, he was awarded the Department of Defense's medal for Distinguished Public Service.

Mr. Korb is Chairman of the Board for the Committee of National Security, and a Board Member of the Washington Center, the Procurement Round Table, and the National Military Family Association. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Aspen Strategy Group. He was a member of the Defense Advisory Committee for President-Elect Reagan (1980) and a member of the Defense Issues Group for President-Elect Bush (1988).

Mr. Korb received his M.A. from St. John's University in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1969 from the State University of New York at Albany. He has held several academic positions -- among them: Assistant Professor of Political Science, the University of Dayton, 1969-71; Associate Professor of Government, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 1971-75; Professor of Management, U.S. Naval War College, 1975-1980; and Adjunct Professor in National Security Studies, Georgetown University, 1981-93.

He served on active duty for four years as Naval Flight Officer and retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Captain.

Mr. Korb's 15 books and 150 articles on national security issues include The Joint Chiefs of Staff: The First Twenty-five Years; The Fall and Rise of the Pentagon; and American National Security: Policy and Process. His articles have appeared in such journals as Foreign Affairs, Public Administration Review, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Naval Institute Proceedings, and International Security. Over the past decade Mr. Korb has made over 500 appearances as a commentator on such shows as the Today Show, Good Morning America, Face the Nation, This Week with David Brinkley, the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Larry King Live, and Crossfire. His op-ed pieces have appeared in such major newspapers as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Christian Science Monitor.

At the Pentagon, Dr. Lavoy directs a staff that works on a variety of policy issues aimed at enhancing the ability of U.S. and coalition military forces to operate effectively against adversaries armed with nuclear, biological or chemical (NBC) weapons and ballistic missiles. The focus of U.S. counterproliferation policy is to improve and institutionalize U.S. military capabilities to successfully deter, combat, and defend against the use of NBC weapons and missiles, and to assist allies and other friendly countries to prepare their armed forces and populations to defend against NBC threats. In addition to these responsibilities, Dr. Lavoy has been involved in DoD (Department of Defense) efforts to craft U.S. policy toward South Asia in the wake of the nuclear explosive tests conducted by India and Pakistan.

At the Naval Postgraduate School, Dr. Lavoy is Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs. He teaches graduate courses and supervises Master's theses on nuclear strategy, weapons proliferation, nonproliferation and counterproliferation, South Asian security issues, and other topics in international relations. Dr. Lavoy has published numerous articles and book chapters on weapons proliferation and on South Asian political and military issues. His two forthcoming books are Learning to Live with the Bomb: India and Nuclear Weapons, 1947-1999, and Planning the Unthinkable: Military Doctrines for the Use of WMD, co-edited with Scott Sagan and James Wirtz (Cornell University Press).

Dr. Lavoy received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Government from Oberlin College. He has held research positions at the Center for Security and Technology Studies at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He speaks and reads Hindi, Urdu, French, and some Russian.

Prior to assuming this position, Mr. Riedel served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from July 1995 to April 1997. In this position Mr. Riedel was the principal adviser to Secretaries of Defense William Perry and William Cohen on Middle East and South Asian issues. In January 1997 Secretary Perry awarded Mr. Riedel the Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service for his work on theater missile defenses and other issues. Before his DASD role, Mr. Riedel served as the National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for Near East and South Asia for the Director of Central Intelligence. In this position, he was responsible for preparing the National Intelligence Estimates on the region and presenting intelligence community judgments to the policy-making community.

A career intelligence analyst, Mr. Riedel joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1977. From 1984 through 1986, he was assigned overseas in the Middle East. Mr. Riedel served as Deputy Chief, Persian Gulf Task Force at the CIA during the 1990-1991 Iraq-Kuwait crisis. The Director of Central Intelligence, William Webster, awarded him the Intelligence Medal of Merit for his pivotal contributions to CIA analysis during the war.

Mr. Riedel has traveled widely with the President and Vice President and has met with numerous regional leaders. He is a graduate of Brown University (B.A.) and received a Masters Degree in history from Harvard in 1976.

From 1995 to 1998, Ambassador Steinberg served as U.S. Ambassador to Angola. In this capacity, he received the Robert C. Frasure Award for International Peace. Before that, he served as President Clinton's Special Assistant for African Affairs and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC). Ambassador Steinberg began his White House service in 1993 as Deputy Press Secretary for National Security Affairs, Special Assistant to the President, and NSC Senior Director for Public Affairs.

Ambassador Steinberg is a senior career Foreign Service officer with the rank of minister-counselor. From 1990 to 1993, he was Counselor for Economic and Commercial Affairs and Officer-in-Charge at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa. In 1989-90, he served as Senior Policy Adviser for foreign affairs and defense to House of Representatives then-Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt. He also served as the first director of the House Task Force on Trade and Competitiveness in 1989. He was acting Chief Textile Negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative from 1988-1989.

Mr. Steinberg, 46, has wide international experience, with other diplomatic postings in Brazil, Malaysia, Mauritius and the Central African Republic. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, he received his Bachelor's degree in economics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and Master's degrees in political economy from the University of Toronto and in journalism from Columbia University in New York City. He is fluent in Portuguese, French, and Malay.

In 1994, Ambassador Steinberg received the Presidential Meritorious Honor Award. He has also received Columbia University's Pulitzer Fellowship and Hough Award for Excellence in Print, and three Superior Honor Awards from the U.S. State Department. In 1993, he was recognized by the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Civil Rights with a letter of commendation. Ambassador Steinberg has also received fellowships from the American Political Science Association, the University of Toronto, and the State Department. He has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on U.S. trade policy, Africa, and the role of Congress in foreign affairs.