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William Wechsler

William Wechsler

William F. Wechsler is senior director of the Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council. His most recent government position was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combatting Terrorism. Previously, Wechsler served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global Threats, Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury and as Director for Transnational Threats on the National Security Council staff. Wechsler is currently also President of the Center on Illicit Networks and Transnational Organized Crime and the Treasurer of the American Historical Association, as well as having a separate career in finance. He has been Vice Chairman of Capitol Peak Asset Management and Managing Director of Greenwich Associates. Wechsler is a graduate of Cornell University and received a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He has been an adjunct lecturer at SIPA and is currently an executive committee member of the SIPA alumni association. He has contributed chapters to two edited volumes and has been published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs and The National Interest, among others.

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