Susan Eisenhower

Susan Eisenhower is a leading specialist on nuclear energy policy, non-proliferation, and foreign affairs who has advised several U.S. administrations. Ms. Eisenhower, who is based in Washington, D.C., has been a member of Lightbridge Corporation’s Strategic Advisory Council since 2006.

Ms. Eisenhower is president and chair of the Eisenhower Group, an international political consulting firm. In 2010, the U.S. energy secretary appointed Ms. Eisenhower to the Commission on America’s Nuclear Future. It is the third nuclear-related Blue Ribbon Panel that Ms. Eisenhower has served on; she was a member of the influential Sununu-Meserve Commission on the revitalization of nuclear power in the United States, as well as of the Baker-Cutler Commission to evaluate U.S. non-proliferation programs in Russia. Ms. Eisenhower, who spent many years working on nuclear proliferation issues in Russia, is a founding director and board member of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Among many other accomplishments, Ms. Eisenhower is a member of the Steering Committee of the Energy Future Coalition, past president and chair of the Eisenhower Institute, past member of the Standing Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences, and past director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Ms. Eisenhower was instrumental in the Republicans for Obama movement when she endorsed Barack Obama for president, invoking the “Democrats for Eisenhower” who helped her grandfather, Dwight Eisenhower, secure the Republican nomination for president in 1952.

Ms. Eisenhower, the author of four trade press books and editor of three collected volumes, has been a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Institute of Politics at Harvard University and a distinguished fellow at the Nixon Center. She has been awarded four honorary doctorates, including one from the Monterey Institute of International Studies for her work in nuclear non-proliferation.

 
 



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