Dov Zakheim
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Image:Zakheimdov.jpg Dr. Dov S. Zakheim is a former political and economic adviser to the United States government.
Zakheim earned his baccalaureate in government from Columbia University in 1970, and his doctorate in economics and politics at St. Antony's College, Oxford University. He has been an adjunct professor at the National War College, Yeshiva University, Columbia University and Trinity College (Connecticut), where he was presidential scholar. He is an ordained Orthodox Jewish rabbi.
He served in various Department of Defense posts during the Reagan administration, including Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Planning and Resources from 1985 to 1987.
During the 2000 U.S. Presidential election campaign Zakheim served as a foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush as part of a group led by Condoleezza Rice that called itself The Vulcans.
In 2001, Zakheim was CEO of SPC International, a subsidiary of System Planning Corporation, a defense contractor specializing in electronic warfare technologies including remote-controlled aircraft systems. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
At the time of the attack which destroyed the World Trade Center, Dov Zakheim was the Comptroller of the Pentagon, appointed in May 2001. He is a member of the Project for a New American Century and participated in the creation of its controversial 2000 position paper Rebuilding America's Defenses.
He was then appointed to be Undersecretary of Defense from 2001 to 2004 under the George W. Bush administration, and served in this capacity until April 2004. He is currently a Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton.
Publications
- co-author of Rebuilding America's Defenses.
- Flight of the Lavi: Inside a U.S.-Israeli Crisis (Brassey's, 1996)
- Congress and National Security in the Post-Cold War Era (The Nixon Center, 1998)
- Toward a Fortress Europe? (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2000)