The Honorable John Hillen, DPhil, is the James C. Wheat Professor in Leadership at Hampden-Sydney College’s Wilson Center for Leadership in The Public Interest. A Trustee of the Foreign Policy Research Institute since 2008, the Treasurer of its Board of Trustees from 2010 – 1019, he is a former director of the National Security Program at FPRI. A decorated combat veteran, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs in the second half of the George W. Bush Administration.