Rensselaer W. Lee III

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Center on Terrorism, Counter-terrorism, and Homeland Security

Rensselaer (Rens) W. Lee III, Senior Fellow, is an authority on international crime and narcotics and nuclear security issues. A Stanford Ph.D., he is president of Global Advisory Services, a McLean, Virginia-based consulting firm. He is the author of The White Labyrinth: Cocaine and Political Power and The Andean Cocaine Industry (with Patrick Clawson) and Smuggling Armageddon: the Nuclear Black Market in the Former Soviet Union and Europe and of numerous scholarly articles. Dr. Lee has performed overseas contract assignments for the State Department, the Department of Energy, the World Bank, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and other agencies, which have encompassed Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caribbean, and much of South America. During 2002-03, he worked as a research analyst at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, where he produced major reports on terrorist finance, nuclear smuggling and Afghanistan’s opium-heroin trade. Dr. Lee speaks Russian, Chinese, Spanish and French. He currently is writing a book on drugs, organized crime and the politics of democratic transition in Cuba.

Rens Lee

Senior Fellow

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