General Jim MATTIS (Ret.)
Name
General Jim MATTIS (Ret.)
Current Positions
• The Davies Family Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA
Academic Background
• National War College, USA
• Central Washington University, USA
Past Experiences
• General Jim Mattis, US Marine Corps (Ret.), is the Davies Family Distinguished Fellow, after having served as the nation’s 26th Secretary of Defense in the administration. In December of 2016, President Donald J. Trump nominated Mattis for Secretary of Defense and he was confirmed a month later. Mattis left Hoover to apply his knowledge and experience to help the President shape his national defense policy.
• General Mattis commanded at multiple levels in his forty-three year career as an infantry Marine. Before retiring in 2013 he was the Commander of U.S. Central Command, directing military operations of over 200,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, Marines and allied forces across the Middle East.