Richard Perle is a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI). His research areas are defense, intelligence, national security, Europe, Middle East, Russian region. He has previously served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for international security policy (1981-1987), and on the U.S. Senate staff (1969-1980). He received his M.A. in political science at Princeton University, and his B.A. at the University of Southern California.
Mr. Perle also presently serves as Chairman of the Defense Policy Board, Department of Defense, Chairman and CEO of Hollinger Digital, and Director of The Jerusalem Post.
Mr. Perle has written articles for the New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, U.S. News & World Report, Wall Street Journal, Evening Standard (London), Times Literary Supplement, and Jerusalem Post. He has appeared on television on ABC's Nightline and This Week, CBS's Face the Nation, NBC's Meet the Press and Today Show, and PBS's NewsHour. Mr. Perle also produced PBS's The Gulf Crisis: The Road to War (1992)
Mr. Perle has testified before Congressional committees and Geneva summits under the Reagan administration.
Mr. Perle is the author of Hard Line (1992), and editor of Reshaping Western Security (1991).
