Morton H. Halperin
Director of U.S. Advocacy at the Open Society Institute and Executive Director of the Open Society Policy Center
Morton H. Halperin is Director of U.S. Advocacy at the Open Society Institute and Executive Director of the Open Society Policy Center. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. Dr. Halperin served in the Clinton, Nixon and Johnson administrations, most recently as Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State (1998-2001). From 1975-92, Dr. Halperin directed the Center for National Security Studies, a project of the American Civil Liberties Union which sought to reconcile requirements of national security with civil liberties. From 1984-92, he also directed the Washington Office of the ACLU where he was responsible for its national legislative program. Dr. Halperin has published a number of books --including Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy, The Democracy Advantage, and Protecting Democracy - and articles on subjects including civil liberties and American foreign policy. He has testified often before Congressional Committees. Dr. Halperin is Chairman of the Board, Democracy Coalition Project, a member of the boards and Chair of the Executive Committees for both DATA Foundation and DATA Action, and a member of the boards of The Constitution Project and the Center for Democracy and Technology. He is the chair of the Advisory Board of the Center for National Security Studies and Chairman of the Board of the Health Privacy Project, Georgetown University.