Admiral Gary Roughead, US Navy (Ret.), serves on the Center’s Advisory Council, providing guidance and direction to the CIL leadership team. Admiral Roughead is a graduate of the US Naval Academy whose naval career culminated in serving as the chief of naval operations, the senior officer in the US Navy. In that role, he was a member of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Prior to that, he held six operational commands and is one of only two officers in the Navy’s history to have commanded both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets. Assignments ashore include Commandant, U.S. Naval Academy, and the Navy’s Chief of Legislative Affairs, responsible for the Department of the Navy’s interaction with Congress.
Admiral Roughead is the Robert and Marion Oster Distinguished Military Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He serves on the boards of directors of the Northrop Grumman Corporation and Maersk Line Limited and is a Trustee of Dodge and Cox Funds. He is a Trustee of the Johns Hopkins University, serves on the Board of Managers of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and advises the BGR Group, Washington, DC, and the Institute for Maritime Policy and Strategy Research in Haifa, Israel.
He co-chaired the Congressionally appointed commission that reviewed the first Trump administration’s National Defense Strategy, and co-chaired a Council on Foreign Relations Task Force addressing America’s response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. He recently concluded a three-year term chairing the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s Council on China Competition and remains active in policy fora with Japan and China.