Admiral Gary Roughead

About

Admiral Gary Roughead, US Navy (Ret.), is the Robert and Marion Oster Distinguished Military Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Admiral Roughead is a graduate of the US Naval Academy whose naval career culminated in serving as the chief of naval operations, the senior officer in the US Navy. In that role he was a member of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Prior to that, he held six operational commands and is one of only two officers in the navy’s history to have commanded both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets. 

Admiral Roughead serves on the boards of directors of the Northrop Grumman Corporation and Maersk Line Ltd.; is a trustee of Dodge and Cox Funds and of the Johns Hopkins University; serves on the Board of Managers of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; is the chair of the National Academy of Sciences Naval Studies Board; and chairs the US Export-Import Bank’s Committee on China Competition.

He cochaired the congressionally appointed commission that reviewed the Trump administration’s National Defense Strategy, recently cochaired a Council on Foreign Relations task force addressing America’s response to China’s One Belt One Road initiative, and remains active in nongovernmental policy fora with Japan and China.