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Mr. Enders Wimbush is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. Previously, he was a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton. He has advised public sector clients on national security strategy and defense/military planning issues, and private sector clients on international risks and opportunities, for more than 25 years. He has compiled a distinguished record as an intellectual innovator and strategist. He is the author of seven books and numerous articles in professional and popular media, as well as dozens of policy studies. His ideas have appeared frequently in professional and popular media, including key international publications like The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, Journal of Commerce, National Interest, and others.
Mr. Wimbush’s public sector clients include a number of offices in the OSD and the Department of Defense, the armed services, and the intelligence community. He has been a consultant to renowned strategist Andrew W. Marshall, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Net Assessment, for more than two decades. In this capacity, he specializes in imagining, describing, and analyzing alternative future security environments, the trends and forces that could shape them, and the conflicting or converging strategies of the key actors on these changing security landscapes. He has directed a wide range of projects for functional and regional “net assessments,” including several recent OSD/NA studies on the future security environment in Asia that attracted attention and excited debate in many parts of the world.
In the private sector, Mr. Wimbush has directed international risk and opportunity assessments for a number of large corporations, including Conoco, ARCO, Texaco, the Japan National Oil Corporation, and Echo Bay Mines. His experience includes 12 years as an expatriate in Europe and extended travel for business, research, network building, and consulting in Asia (e.g., India, China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Pakistan), the Middle East (Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt), and the former U.S.S.R. (Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia).
From 1996 – 2002, Mr. Wimbush was Vice President and Director of Global Assessments of the Strategic Assessment Center at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Vice President for International Strategy & Policy, of Hicks & Associates, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SAIC in McLean, Virginia.
From 1993-96, Mr. Wimbush served as Director of Communications for Runzheimer International, one of America’s oldest management consulting firms.
Mr. Wimbush directed Radio Liberty in Munich, Germany from 1987-92, a period that featured the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. In this position, he directed more than 400 multi-national, multi-cultural staff and contract personnel in Germany, France, England, U.S., Pakistan, Russia and the new states of the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. As Director, Mr. Wimbush led Radio Liberty from distant third place among broadcasters to Russia and the former U.S.S.R. to a dominant first place during the critical years of 1988-92. At RFE-/RL, Mr. Wimbush conceived, planned, and implemented a comprehensive program to upgrade and expand Radio Liberty’s famous research department and develop strong outreach capabilities. He led the effort to create several successful international publications, including the weekly analytical journal Report on the U.S.S.R. (which became RFE/RL Weekly Report; now Open Media Research Institute’s Transition) and the Daily Report (now the Open Media Research Institute’s Daily Report), a fax/Internet-deliverable daily summary of events in the former U.S.S.R. and Eastern/Central Europe.
From 1980-86, Mr. Wimbush founded and directed the Society for Central Asian Studies in Oxford, England, an independent research institute and publishing company that provided political and economic research to European/U.S. corporations and governments. In this position, he created the international journal Central Asian Survey.
As a Senior Analyst for the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California (1977-80), Mr. Wimbush directed a series of programs exploring different aspects of the U.S.-Soviet strategic competition for U.S. Government clients. He is known, particularly, for a pioneering study on the implications of the ethnic factor in the Soviet armed forces. |
