John F. Lehman, Jr. is an American investment banker and writer who served as Secretary of the Navy

United States Secretary of the Navy

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 in the Reagan administration

Reagan Administration

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 and in 2003–04 was a member of the 9/11 Commission

9/11 Commission

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission, was set up on November 27, 2002, "to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks", including preparedness for and the immediate response to...

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Lehman currently serves on the National Security Advisory Council for the Center for Security Policy

Center for Security Policy

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 (CSP), and on the board of trustees for the think tank Foreign Policy Research Institute

Foreign Policy Research Institute

The Foreign Policy Research Institute is an American neoconservative think tank based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is "devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S...

 (FPRI). Lehman is also a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States and has signed some policy letters produced by the Project for the New American Century

Project for the New American Century

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