Director of Presidential Affairs

 

Job Henning is director of presidential affairs for the Project on National Security Reform, and a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency. Henning is responsible for the PNSR's work with the Executive branch, Congressional leadership, and presidential campaigns.

From 2004-2007 Henning was a corporate officer at Hicks & Associates, a $20 million a year defense and strategy consulting subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company. As vice president at Hicks and Associates, he reported to Admiral Richard Mies, former Commander of US Strategic Command. Henning ran practice areas in stability operations, defense reorganization, cultural intelligence, and future security environment analysis. Henning has led a variety of environmental, water, agricultural, energy, and demographic studies that investigated strategic trends in Asia for Mr. Andrew Marshall, advisor to the Secretary of Defense for long term futures. He has provided scenario-based planning services to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Military Services, the National Oceans and Atmosphere Administration, National Science Foundation, and the Intelligence Community. Henning chaired the Office of the Secretary of Defense's (OSD) Strategic Planning Guidance Study on Strategy and Doctrine for Stability Operations; coauthored a study on statutory authorities for the Secretary of Defense on defense reorganization; and chaired a study for the CIA on foreign perceptions of the United States.

 

Previously, he was director of international strategy and policy for Hicks & Associates and assistant division manager for Strategic Studies, an $8 million/year division at Science Applications International Corporation. In these positions he was responsible for providing strategic consulting services to government and commercial clients in Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. In 2001, Henning led a team that assisted the Romanian President in preparing Romania's Membership Action Plan (MAP) for NATO admission.  In 1999-2000 Henning led a program for the National Intelligence Council on the development of political Islam in Central Asia, assisted a Canadian corporate client in developing a $2 billion Production Sharing Agreement in the precious metals sector in Siberia, and provided corporate advisory services on Caspian energy development to the Japanese National Oil Company, Andrew Palmer and Associates, Lockheed Martin, ARCO, and Conoco. In 1998, Henning advised the CEO of SAIC on maritime surveillance, pipeline security programs, and telecom privatization along the Eurasian Transport Corridor.

 

From 1995-1998 and again in 2003-2004 Henning worked in venture capital for Schomann International in Russia and the Caucuses in mobile telephony and satellite systems, where he was responsible for government and investor relations. From 1995-1996 he took the position of deputy general manager of a subsidiary, MegaCom, in the Republic of Georgia.

 

He has frequently lectured at universities and public policy organizations, speaks French and Georgian, and has served as a director or board member of the American Friends of Georgia, America Georgia Business Council, and the Georgian Association in the United States. Henning holds a J.D. from Georgetown University, an M.A. in International Relations from George Washington University, and a B.A. in Political Science and Literature from Wheaton College. He is a member of the Virginia Bar.