S. Enders Wimbush

Prior to joining Hudson, S. Enders Wimbush spent 10 years in the private sector with Booz Allen Hamilton and Science Applications International Corporation analyzing future security environments for both government and corporate clients. Wimbush's public sector clients include a number offices in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the armed services, and the intelligence community. In particular, he has been a consultant to OSD's Office of Net Assessment for more nearly three decades. In this capacity, he specializes in identifying and analyzing alternative future security dynamics, the trends and forces that could shape them, and the strategies of the key actors. He has directed a wide range of projects for functional and regional "net assessments," including several recent studies on the future security environment in Asia.

In the private sector,  Wimbush has directed international risk and opportunity assessments for a number of large corporations. His experience includes 12 years as an expatriate in Europe and extended travel for business, research, network building, and consulting in Asia (e.g., China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Australia, India, Pakistan, the Philippines), the Middle East (Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt), and the former U.S.S.R. (Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia).

From 1987 to 1993, Wimbush served on the frontlines of America's strategic communications efforts as director of Radio Liberty in Munich, Germany. During his tenure, the Berlin Wall came down, the Soviet Union collapsed, and Wimbush had the honor of opening Radio Liberty's offices in Moscow, Kiev, and elsewhere in the former USSR. He remains deeply involved in the strategy and policy of America's strategic communications, most recently, as of 2007, as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the presidential campaign of Rudy Giuliani with responsibility for Public Diplomacy.

From 1980-86, Wimbush founded and directed the Society for Central Asian Studies in Oxford, England, an independent research institute and publishing company that provided political and economic research to European and American corporations and governments. In this position, he created the international journal Central Asian Survey.

As a Senior Analyst for the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California (1977-80), Wimbush directed a series of programs exploring different aspects of the U.S.-Soviet strategic competition for U.S. Government clients. He is known, particularly, for leading a pioneering study on the implications of the ethnic factor in the Soviet armed forces.

He is the author, co-author or editor of seven books and numerous articles in professional and popular media, as well as dozens of policy studies. His ideas have appeared frequently in professional and popular media, including the Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, the Washington Times, Journal of Commerce, National Interest, and others.