Lee S. Wolosky
| Lee S. Wolosky | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 17, 1968 New York City |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Occupation | Attorney, Senior Government Official |
Lee Scott Wolosky (July 17, 1968 –) is a Partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP and a former Director for Transnational Threats on the National Security Council at the White House under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.
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[edit] Early life
Wolosky grew up in the Bronx, New York. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he was a recipient of the John Harvard Scholarship and the Harvard College Scholarship. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and a recipient of the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. While in law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor, who was then a federal district court judge.
[edit] Government
Wolosky served as Director for Transnational Threats on the National Security Council at the White House under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. The Transnational Threats Directorate was responsible for coordinating the U.S. Government’s response to terrorism prior to 9/11. At the White House, Wolosky had specific responsibility for coordinating U.S. policy relating to illicit finance impacting national security. Wolosky's work at the White House also included directing sensitive operations, including leading U.S. government efforts to apprehend "Merchant of Death" Viktor Bout, the Taliban and al Qaeda-linked arms trafficker, who is now awaiting trial in New York.
Wolosky has served as a consultant to various agencies of the U.S. Government in recent years and has testified on several occasions before the United States Congress. He also testified before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the "9/11 Commission") in both open and closed sessions.
In 2003-2004, Wolosky served as a senior advisor to the presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry and as co-director of the campaign's counterterrorism policy coordinating group.
Wolosky is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as co-director of the Council on Foreign Relation's Independent Task Force on Terrorist Financing and deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations’s Independent Task Force on Russia. He is also a co-founder and member of the board of directors of the National Security Network. He was appointed to the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security in 2010.
Wolosky has also served as an Adjunct Professor in International Affairs at Columbia University.
[edit] Legal career
In 2001, Wolosky joined Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, the prominent U.S. law firm led by David Boies whose partners are known for high-profile matters such as the representation of Al Gore in the contested 2000 U.S. presidential election, representation of the U.S. Government in its anti-trust dispute with Microsoft, and representation of AIG and its former CEO Hank Greenberg. Wolosky has led or co-led some of the firm’s high profile matters in recent years.
Prior to Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, he worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and as an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. At Paul Weiss, he worked principally with, and was mentored by, Theodore C. Sorensen, President John F. Kennedy's Special Counsel.
[edit] Further reading
- Putting the Bout into Khodorkovsky In The News on bsfllp.com
- Putin's Plutocrat Problem Summary, March/April 2000
- Defeating the Jihadists: A Blueprint for Action, Richard A. Clarke, et al. November 15, 2005
- Terrorist Financing: Report of an Independent Task Force by Maurice R. Greenberg, William F. Wechsler, Lee S. Wolosky (2002)
- What to Do in Riyadh? The Weekly Standard, Dec 10, 2007, Vol. 13, No. 13 by Lee Wolosky and Max Boot
- Testimony of Lee S. Wolosky, Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs September 18, 2007
- Testimony of Mr. Lee S. Wolosky, Project Co-Director, Council on Foreign Relations' Second Report of the independent Task Force on Terrorist Financing Hearing: The 9/11 Commission and Efforts to Identify and Combat Terrorist Financing September 29, 2004
- Appearance, NBC's News Forum September 24, 2004, 6:30AM, regarding 2004 Presidential Elections and John Kerry's foreign policy
- Testimony by Lee Wolosky Concerning the Second Report of an Independent Task Force on Terrorist Financing Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations June 15, 2004
- Statement of Lee S. Wolosky to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States 9/11 Commission, April 1, 2003
[edit] References
- Lee Wolosky's profile on Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
