John Deutch

About

John M. Deutch is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Deutch has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1970 and has served as chairman of the Department of Chemistry, dean of science, and provost.

Deutch served as director of central intelligence, deputy secretary of defense, and under secretary of defense for acquisition and technology in the first Clinton administration. He also served as director of energy research, acting assistant secretary for energy technology, and under secretary in the Clinton administration’s Department of Energy.

Deutch has served on the President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee, the President’s Commission on Strategic Forces, the White House Science Council, the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the President’s Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, the Commission on Reducing and Protecting Government Secrecy, the President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, and as chairman of the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. He received the Aspen Strategy Group Leadership Award in 2004 and was the Phi Beta Kappa orator at Harvard University in 2005. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 2009, Deutch received the MIT Gordon Y. Billard Award for “special service of outstanding merit performed for the Institute.” He was a member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (2012–17) and its chair (2014–17).

He has served on the board of directors of Cheniere Energy, Citigroup, CMS Energy, Cummins, Raytheon, Schlumberger, and SAIC and as a trustee or director of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, the Center for American Progress, the Council on Foreign Relations, Resources for the Future, and the Urban Institute.