| Biographical profile |
Colonel Jack A. LeCuyer, USA (Retired), was the Executive Director of the White House Fellows Foundation and Association from 1996 to 1999. During that time, he was also a Department of Defense Minerva Chair/Distinguished Fellow at the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 2010 to 2012. Prior to that, he was a Distinguished Fellow with the Project on National Security Reform (PNSR) with lead responsibility for efforts in the design of a new National Security Staff and was a major contributor to key PNSR study efforts, including Forging a New Shield (November 2008), Turning Ideas into Action (September 2009) and The Power of People: Building an Integrated National Security Professional System for the 21st Century (December 2010). Colonel LeCuyer was also an Adjunct Staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses from 1996 to 2003 and a principal developer of a simulation designed to teach market economics and democratic governance in post-conflict environments--a simulation that was successfully deployed to support NATO’s IFOR in Bosnia from 1997 to 1999 as well as to Montenegro, Iraq, Kosovo, Poland, and Moldova.
Colonel LeCuyer served for thirty years in the United States Army, from 1966 to 1996, with twenty years of senior level leadership experience focused on strategic policy, organizational planning and effectiveness, doctrinal development, policy formulation, project advocacy and marketing, operational and fiscal management, and successful program execution. He has nine years’ experience in post-conflict reconstruction and development of market economies and parliamentary systems in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Iraq. His key senior staff assignments include being a strategic planner and Special Assistant to: the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; the Commander-in-Chief, United States Southern Command; and two Army Chiefs of Staff.
Colonel LeCuyer played a major role in the post-Vietnam transformation of the Army into the world-class force that was decisive in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He served as Chief of Force Integration in the 8th ID (M) for three years, where he was a major contributor to the development of Army doctrine for AirLand Battle and Leader Development. His Army command tours include the 7th Engineer Battalion, 5th ID (M) and the US Army Engineer District, Sacramento, the Army’s largest engineer district; he served twenty-six months in Vietnam, to include TET 1969, with the 8th Engineer Battalion, 1st Air Cavalry Division. He also served as Command Engineer for the US Southern Command in Panama from 1986 to 1988. His awards for thirty years of active duty service include the Army’s highest peacetime award, the Army Distinguished Service Medal, as well as the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star with “V” device, the Bronze Star for Meritorious Service (3), the Air Medal (5), the Meritorious Service Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal and the Humanitarian Service Award (2).
Colonel LeCuyer was also an Olmsted Scholar at the Universita degli Studi in Firenze, Italy, from 1970 to 1972 and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 1972-1973; a White House Fellow with duty in the White Office of Intergovernmental Affairs; Army in 1977- 1978; Army Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States in 1985-1986; and, Senior Army Fellow at the Brookings Institution in 1995-1996.
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