Robert B. Charles (Bobby) has worked in national security and criminal justice for more than three decades, including for the Reagan and Bush 41 White Houses, on the US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, and as Staff Director and Chief Counsel to the US House National Security, International Affairs and Criminal Justice Subcommittee. Unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2003, he served as Colin Powell’s Assistant Secretary of State, INL, managing a $2 billion-dollar bureau focused on rule of law, international police training, and counter-narcotics programs in 70 countries. In that role, he set up the US Iraqi and Afghan police training programs, managed Plan Colombia, and programs from Kosovo and Jordan to Thailand and Laos. A ten-year Reserve Naval Intelligence Officer, he volunteered for active duty on 9-11, completing military service in 2009 as a Lieutenant Commander. Between 1998 and 2001, he taught Government Oversight and Cyberlaw at Harvard University’s Extension School. He has written hundreds of articles on law, policy and national security, and two national books, “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003) and “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018). Raised in rural Maine, one of the best days of his life was acceptance to Dartmouth College. After Dartmouth, he earned a Masters in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University (1984), JD from Columbia Law School, clerked, litigated in New York and Washington, and eventually founded a non-partisan, public-spirited consulting group in Washington DC, focused chiefly on national security.