Kathleen Hicks served as the 35th U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense. She was previously Senior Vice President and Director of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Donald Marron Scholar at the Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, where she is once again affiliated as a Senior Fellow. Earlier in her career, she was the Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Forces.
Hicks has held positions on the board of trustees of the Aerospace Corporation, the board of directors of the U.S. Naval Institute, the National Defense Strategy Commission, and the National Commission on the Future of the Army. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
She earned her Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her M.P.A. from the University of Maryland, and her bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College.