Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado, former U.S. Senator
Since retiring from the United States Senate, Gary Hart has been extensively involved in international law and business, as a strategic advisor to major U.S. corporations, and as a teacher, author and lecturer.
He is currently Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado. He is also chair of the American Security Project and chair of the Council for a Livable World. Senator Hart is a member of the National Academy of Sciences committee on science, technology and the law and was a member of its task force on science and security.
He was co-chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century, which performed the most comprehensive review of national security since 1947. For 15 years, Senator Hart was Senior Counsel to Coudert Brothers, a multinational law firm with offices in 32 cities located in 19 countries around the world.
He was president of Global Green, the U.S. affiliate of Mikhail Gorbachev’s environmental foundation, Green Cross International. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund; a former member of the Defense Policy Board; and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was co-chair of the Council task force that produced the report: America Unprepared—America Still at Risk, in October, 2002.
Gary Hart has been Visiting Fellow, Chatham Lecturer and McCallum Memorial Lecturer at Oxford University, Global Fund Lecturer at Yale University, and Regents Lecturer at the University of California. He has earned a doctor of philosophy degree from Oxford University and graduate law and divinity degrees from Yale University. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Yale Law School and is the author of 18 books.
Senator Hart represented the State of Colorado in the United States Senate from 1975 to 1987. In 1984 and 1988, he was a candidate for his party’s nomination for President. He was first elected to the Senate in 1974, having never before sought public office, and was re-elected in 1980. During his 12 years in the Senate, Senator Hart served on the Armed Services Committee, where he specialized in nuclear arms control and was an original founder of the military reform caucus. He also served on the Senate Environment Committee, Budget Committee and Intelligence Oversight Committee. During his Senate years, he played a leadership role in major environmental and conservation legislation, military reform initiatives, new initiatives to advance the information revolution and new directions in foreign policy. He is widely recognized as among the first to forecast the end of the Cold War.
