James Steinberg James B. Steinberg joined the Brookings Institution on September 1, 2001 as Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program, after a year as Senior Adviser to the Markle Foundation. Steinberg held several senior positions in the Clinton administration, including Deputy National Security Adviser to the President from December 1996 until July 2000, where he also served as the President's personal representative ("Sherpa") for the 1998 and 1999 G-8 Summits. His other senior positions included Director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, from March 1994 to December 1996, and Deputy Assistant secretary for Intelligence and Research from September 1993 to February 1994. Prior to joining the State Department, Steinberg worked as a Senior Analyst at RAND in Santa Monica, California (1989-1993) and as Senior Fellow for U.S. Strategic Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London (1985-1987). Steinberg is the author of and contributor to many books on foreign policy and national security topics, as well as domestic policy, including Protecting the American Homeland, published by Brookings Institution Press, and An Ever Closer Union: European Integration and Its Implications for the Future of U.S.-European Relations, published by RAND. Steinberg received his B.A. from Harvard in 1973 and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1978. He is a member of the D.C. Bar. Beginning January 2006, Steinberg will be the Dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin.