Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, USAF (Ret.), is the founder and President of The Forum for International Policy, a non-partisan, non-profit organization providing independent perspectives and opinions on major foreign policy issues, based on a commitment to active, thoughtful American global leadership. He is also President of The Scowcroft Group, Inc., an international business consulting firm.

General Scowcroft served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs to Presidents Ford and Bush. He also served as Military Assistant to President Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs to Presidents Ford and Nixon. Prior to joining the Bush Administration, General Scowcroft was Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc. He serves as a Director on the boards of Qualcomm Corporation and the American Council on Germany.

In the course of his military career, General Scowcroft has held positions in the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Headquarters of the U.S. Air Force, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Other assignments included faculty positions at the U. S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and Assistant Air Attache in the American Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

General Scowcroft has chaired or served on a number of policy advisory councils, including the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control, the President's Commission on Strategic Forces, the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management, the Defense Policy Board, and the President's Special Review Board (Tower Board) investigating the Iran-Contra affair. He currently serves as Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) and Chairman of the American-Turkish Council (ATC). He is also a Member of the Board of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation, the George C. Marshall Foundation, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Atlantic Council of the United States, the International Republican Institute, and the National Defense University. He is also Chairman of the Board of the CSIS/Pacific Forum and the Bush Presidential Library Foundation. He also serves as an Advisory Board Member of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, Honorary Advisor to the U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce, and Honorary Advisor for the National Committee on United States-China Relations' Young Leaders Forum.

General Scowcroft had an aeronautical rating as a pilot and has numerous military decorations and awards. In addition, President Bush presented him with the Medal of Freedom Award in 1991. In 1993, he was presented with the insignia of an Honorary Knight of the British Empire (K.B.E.) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.

General Scowcroft was born in Ogden, Utah. He received his undergraduate degree and commission into the Army Air Forces from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He has an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.