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Hon. John Shaw
Deputy Undersecretary for International Security
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Mr. The Honorable John A. Shaw was appointed as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for International Technology Security on October 15, 2001. In this newly created position, which is part of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L), he is responsible for reforming and improving the export control process so as to measurably improve the security of critical American technologies and manufacturing abilities. As important, he is responsible for facilitating strategically important transfers to our closest allies while protecting American technological superiority, and will provide an essential coordinating and balancing function between AT&L, the Office of the Under Secretary for Policy, and the three Services. Mr. Shaw will have a lead role both in the interagency process and in coordinating with industry and Congress on export control issues.
Prior to his appointment by Secretary Rumsfeld, Mr. Shaw was President and CEO of the American Overseas Clinics Corporation. He has served in a variety of senior positions in the government for over 30 years, including the White House staffs of Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan. He served as White House Liaison to the Defense Department under President Ford and to the State Department under President Reagan. In 1975 he was confirmed as Inspector General of Foreign Assistance and Assistant Secretary of State, responsible for the oversight of all U.S. Foreign Military Sales, U.S. AID, the Peace Corps, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Export-Import Bank. From 1986-88 he served as Senior Advisor to the Administrator of AID. From 1989-91 he served as Associate Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Department of Commerce, and oversaw a major effort to reform the Bureau of Export Administration. In 1992 he was nominated as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement, receiving a recess appointment when the revised Export Administration Act was vetoed.
From 1978-80, Mr. Shaw returned to the private sector as a Vice President of Booz-Allen and Hamilton International, overseeing the development, organization and management of two new industrial cities, Jubail and Yanbu, in Saudi Arabia. These cities constituted the largest development project in the world. He has since played a major role in several management consulting companies, the St. Phalle International Group and the Cambridge Consulting Group, overseeing international business development projects. From 1980-84 he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, specializing in Middle Eastern and International Business Affairs, and was Vice President for Washington Operations for the Hudson Institute, then overseeing the Center for Naval Analyses, from 1985-86.
Mr. Shaw received a B.A. from Williams College, as well as a bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Fellow of Magdalene College. He has taught international security studies at Cambridge, Williams, Georgetown, and the Institut Politique in Paris.
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