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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) today announced that retired General Joseph F. Dunford, who served as the 19th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been named its next chief executive officer.
General Dunford will assume the role on May 7, 2026, succeeding John Hamre, who announced last year that he will retire as CEO after 26 years of transformational leadership at CSIS. As CEO, General Dunford will oversee all aspects of CSIS’s research programming and operations, guiding the Center’s strategic direction and institutional growth. His appointment comes at a critical moment, as CSIS centers its scholarship on the defining challenges of a changing global order marked by strategic competition, technological transformation, and evolving security threats.
One of the nation’s most respected national security leaders, General Dunford brings decades of experience at the highest levels of national decisionmaking. He served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—the nation’s highest-ranking military officer—under Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, from October 2015 through September 2019. Previously, he served as the 36th commandant of the Marine Corps. He also commanded the International Security Assistance Force and United States Forces–Afghanistan from February 2013 to August 2014.
John Hamre will continue contributing to CSIS’s scholarship and global engagement as CEO emeritus once General Dunford assumes the CEO position on May 7.
Dunford has served on Lockheed Martin's board of directors since February 2020. He has also served as a senior managing director and partner of Liberty Strategic Capital and as a member of the firm's investment committee since Feb. 2022. Liberty is led by Steven Mnuchin, the former US Treasury Secretary in the first Trump Administration.
In May 2022 he joined the board of directors of satellite imagery firm Satellogic. A press release at that time said the board of directors of Satellogic included Mnuchin and Howard Lutnick, who is now the US Commerce Secretary.
He's been a resident senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, and he has been a board member of Georgetown University.