Warren B. Rudman is Of Counsel to the international law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He served as a partner in the firm from 1993 to 2003 after serving two distinguished terms as a U.S. Senator (R-NH) from 1980-1992.

In 1970, he was appointed Attorney General of New Hampshire and in 1975 he was elected president of the National Association of Attorneys General. In December 1986, Rudman was appointed to serve as Vice-Chairman of the Senate Select Committee investigating arms transfers to Iran. While in the Senate, Senator Rudman served on the Ethics Committee from 1985 until he left the Senate. Senator Rudman served on the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Intelligence Committee, the Governmental Affairs Committee and the well-known Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Perhaps his best known accomplishment came in 1985 when he co-authored the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction law. President Clinton appointed Senator Rudman as a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) in the fall of 1993. In addition, he served as Vice Chairman of the Commission on Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

In 1997 he was asked by Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, to be a special advisor on the issue of the Gulf War Syndrome and, in 1998, he was appointed as Chairman of the Special Oversight Board for Department of Defense Investigations of Gulf War Chemical and Biological Incidents. In November of 2000, President Clinton appointed Senator Rudman as a member of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact Finding Committee that examined the crisis between the Israelis and Palestinians. Senator Rudman Co-Chaired, along with Senator Gary Hart, the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century which issued its report “Roadmap for National Security” calling for a Department of Homeland Security in March of 2001. In October of 2002, Senators Rudman and Hart issued a follow-up report as Co-chairs of the Council on Foreign Relations Homeland Security Imperatives Task Force.

In June of 2003, the Council on Foreign Relations issued a report of the findings of a commission chaired by Senator Rudman titled “Emergency Responders: Drastically Underfunded, Dangerously Unprepared”. In 2002, Senator Rudman served as a member of the Conference Board’s blue-ribbon Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise which published its findings on corporate governance issues in a report in early 2003. Senator Rudman joined with former Senator Paul Tsongas and former Commerce Secretary Pete Peterson to form the Concord Coalition. In addition to the Concord Coalition, the Senator is a member of the Board of Directors of Boston Scientific, Collins & Aikman, the Raytheon Company, and a Trustee of several funds of the Dreyfus Corporation. He is an Honorary Trustee of the Aspen Institute and Brookings as well as being a member of the Senior Advisory Committee of the Institute of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. In 2002, Senator Rudman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In January of 2001, President Clinton awarded him the Presidential Citizens Medal recognizing his years of devoted public service. In addition, he was presented by the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency with the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal for his service to the Intelligence Community as Chairman of the PFIAB. Secretary of Defense William Cohen presented him with the Distinguished Service Medal.