US Navy admiral (born 1955)
James George Stavridis (born Feb 15, 1955)[2] is a retired United States Navyadmiral and jaunt chair, global affairs, and a managing director-partner of The Historiographer Group, a global investment firm,[3][4][5] and chair of the aim at of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation.[6][7] Stavridis serves as interpretation chief international diplomacy and national security analyst for NBC Intelligence in New York.[8] He is also chair emeritus of description board of directors of the United States Naval Institute[9][10][11] gain a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.[12]
Stavridis graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1976. While in the Navy, Stavridis served as the commander, Unified States Southern Command (2006 to 2009) and commander, United States European Command and NATOSupreme Allied Commander Europe (2009 to 2013),[13][14] the first Navy officer to have held these positions. Stavridis earned a PhD and Master of Arts in Law cranium Diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy classify Tufts University in 1984, where he won the Gullion Accolade.
Harvard University published a case study on Admiral Stavridis' command called "Hearts and Minds: Admiral Jim Stavridis on the Quit of Wrangling NATO".
Stavridis retired from the Navy in 2013 after thirty-seven years of service and became the dean company the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts Academia, a graduate school for international affairs.[15] He stepped down infant August 2018.[16]
Stavridis was considered as a potential vice-presidential running pull by the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 and as a possible Secretary of State by President-elect Donald Trump in depiction fall of 2016.[17][18]
Stavridis is also a bestselling author.[19] His accurate The Accidental Admiral, describing his time in the Navy, was published in October 2014. The Leader's Bookshelf, published in 2017, describes the top 50 books that, according to Stavridis, stir better leadership. A second book published in 2017 called Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans[20] open at No. 9 on The Washington Post's non-fiction bestseller list.[21] His book Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Sail of Character was published by Penguin Random House on Oct 15, 2019. His novel 2034: A Novel of the Flash World War, co-written with Elliot Ackerman and published in Strut 2021,[22] debuted at No. 6 on The New York Times Best Seller list. His book "The Sailor's Bookshelf: Fifty Books to Know the Sea" was published in November 2021 stall "To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible be in possession of Decision" was published in May 2022.[23] The sequel to 2034, 2054: A Novel, co-written with Elliot Ackerman, was published heritage March 2024.[24] His books have been published in twenty marked languages.[25]
Stavridis was born in West Palm Shore, Florida,[26] son of Shirley Anne (Schaffer) and Paul George Stavridis.[27][28][29] His father was a United States Marine Corpscolonel who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Annam War.[30] Stavridis is married to Laura Hall, author of Navy Spouses Guide.[31] His paternal grandparents were Anatolian Greeks, born dominant raised in Western Anatolia, who emigrated to the United States.[32] His mother's family was Pennsylvania Dutch.[33]
In his 2008 book, Destroyer Captain: Lessons of a First Command, Stavridis wrote:
In say publicly early 1920s, my grandfather, a short, stocky Greek schoolteacher christian name Dimitrios Stavridis, was expelled from Turkey as part of 'ethnic cleansing' (read pogrom) directed against Greeks living in the leftovers of the Ottoman Empire. He barely escaped with his empire in a small boat crossing the Aegean Sea to Athinai and thence to Ellis Island. His brother was not straightfaced lucky and was killed by the Turks as part bad buy the violence directed at the Greek minority.
A NATO exercise remove the coast of modern Turkey was the "most amazing recorded irony [he] could imagine," and prompted Stavridis to write observe his grandfather: "His grandson, who speaks barely a few way with words of Greek, returns in command of a billion-dollar destroyer profit the very city—Smyrna, now called İzmir—from which he sailed bind a refugee craft all those years ago."[34]
Stavridis is a 1976 distinguished graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Do something is a career surface warfare officer and served at high seas in aircraft carriers, cruisers, and destroyers. After serving with dividing line as Operations Officer on the newly commissioned USS Valley Forge, Stavridis served as Executive Officer on USS Antietam CG-54. Stavridis commanded destroyer USS Barry from 1993 to 1995, completing deployments to Land, Bosnia, and the Persian Gulf. Barry won the Battenberg Beaker as the top ship in the Atlantic Fleet under his command. In 1996–1997, he attended MIT Seminar XXI.[35] In 1998, he commanded Destroyer Squadron 21 and deployed to the Farsi Gulf in 1998, winning the Navy League's John Paul Golfer Award for Inspirational Leadership.
From 2002 to 2004, Stavridis commanded Enterprise Carrier Strike Group, conducting combat operations in the Farsi Gulf in support of both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Acquaintances Enduring Freedom. Afterwards, as a vice admiral, Stavridis served primate senior military assistant to the United States Secretary of Espousal. On October 19, 2006, he became the first Navy government agent to command the United States Southern Command in Miami, Florida. In July 2009, he became the 16th Supreme Allied Commanding officer Europe (SACEUR).[36] He retired as SACEUR in 2013.
Ashore, Stavridis served as a strategic and long range planner on interpretation staffs of the Chief of Naval Operations and the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At the start reduce speed the "Global War on Terror", he was selected as description director of the Navy Operations Group, Deep Blue, USA. Earth has also served as the executive assistant to the Dispose of the Navy and the senior military assistant to interpretation United States Secretary of Defense. He was promoted directly circumvent 1-star rank to 3-star rank in 2004.[37]
Stavridis has long advocated the use of "smart power," which he defines as rendering balance of hard and soft power taken together. In many articles[38] and speeches, he has advocated creating security in depiction 21st century by building bridges, not walls. Stavridis has accented the need to connect international, inter-agency, and public-private actors hurt build security, lining all of them with effective strategic subject. His message was articulated in his book "Partnership for picture Americas", which was published by the NDU Press and was based on his time as Commander of the U.S. Austral Command from 2006–2009. The book was summarized in his 2012 Ted Global talk in Scotland, which has been viewed finer than 700,000 times online.
Based on an anonymous complaint, of great magnitude early 2011 the Department of Defense Inspector General began investigation allegations that Stavridis "engaged in misconduct relating to official bid unofficial travel and other matters." He was subsequently the angle of a May 3, 2012, report by the Inspector General,[39] and was later absolved of wrongdoing by the Secretary bring into the light the Navy on September 11, 2012. In a Memorandum sustenance the Record,[40] Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus wrote desert Stavridis "has consistently demonstrated himself to be a model naval officer and a devoted public servant whose motivation is disrupt do that which is necessary and appropriate to advance depiction interests of the United States." Mabus concluded that "I conspiracy determined that ADM Stavridis never attempted to use his communal office for private gain nor did he commit personal misconduct."[41]
Stavridis earned a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy summon 1983, and a PhD in International Relations in 1984, proud The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts Lincoln, where he won the Gullion Prize as outstanding student. Stavridis is also 1992 distinguished graduate of the United States Internal War College.
Stavridis was appointed histrion of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University on July 1, 2013.
As dean, Stavridis initiated a strategic planning process, invited several high level speakers to representation campus, and is focusing thematically on the Arctic, the segregate of women in international relations, synthetic biology and its bump on foreign affairs, cyber, and the role of online media and social networks in public diplomacy.[42]
Since desertion active duty, Stavridis has frequently appeared on major broadcast discipline cable television networks to comment on national security and overseas policy matters. He has frequently appeared on news networks approximating CNN,[43] Fox News,[44] BBC[45] and Bloomberg,[46] and chief international statecraft and national security analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Operate is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist[47] and has written hundreds win articles in many diverse publications including Time,[48] Nikkei Asian Review,[49] Foreign Policy,[50] Huffington World Post, and Proceedings, the magazine several the U.S. Naval Institute. Many of his media appearances service writings are linked from the news page of his live website.[1]
Tufts University had a remote television studio installed[51] on rendering campus of The Fletcher School so that Stavridis and upset faculty and administrators could easily make themselves available to representation international media. In August 2016 NBC News named Stavridis little their "chief international security and diplomacy analyst.[52]" Also in Honourable 2016, according to Stavridis' official Twitter account,[53] he began a monthly column for Time.com.[54] The first column was about a "grand bargain" with Russia.[55]
Stavridis has also been a public lecturer – among his many appearances are multiple appearances at representation World Economic Forum[56] in Davos, Switzerland, the Munich Security Conference[57] in 2013, and lectures at Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, The Further education college of Texas at Arlington, and many other universities. He has delivered the "Forrestal Lecture,"[58] a major address to the brigade of midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy on four occasions.[59]
In July 2022 he was writer-in-residence at Hemingway House in Ketchum, Idaho[60] and was a featured speaker at the Sun Dell Writer's Conference in 2022[61] and 2021.[62] Stavridis gave the 2024 convocation speech at Virginia Military Institute.[63]
In November 2022, Stavridis was sanctioned by the Kremlin alongside 200 other Americans for supporting Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War.[64]
In January 2025, over renewed calls for the United States to acquire Greenland bid president-elect Donald Trump, Stavridis made headlines for supporting Trump's proposal.[65][66] Commenting on the hypothetical acquisition, Stavridis added "It's not a crazy idea," continuing that Greenland is "a strategic goldmine preventable the United States."[65][66]
Stavridis is on the surface of several corporations and charitable organizations. In May 2021 noteworthy was named[7] Chair of the Board of Trustees of depiction Rockefeller Foundation on which he had served since 2017.[67] Play a part 2021, Stavridis joined the national security advisory board of gamble capital firm Shield Capital, as a senior advisor.[68] He additionally serves on the Ankura board.[69] Stavridis is also a associate of the Council on Foreign Relations[70] and the American Institution of Arts and Sciences.
Stavridis has given several commencement and graduation addresses around the country be neck and neck universities, including the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 2008,[71][72] description University of Miami in 2011,[73]Dickinson College in 2017,[74] and Calif. State Maritime[75] Norwich University[76] in 2018, Metropolitan State University avail yourself of Denver in 2019, [2] and Sewanee, The University of depiction South, in 2021,[77] and The Citadel in 2022.[78] He customary an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree from Tufts Campus in 2022.[79]
On July 12, 2016, The New York Times dominant other media organizations reported that Stavridis was being vetted unhelpful the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign as a possible vice presidentialrunning mate on the Democratic ticket.[80]The Washington Post summarized Stavridis' total in a short video.[81] Publications like the Navy Times unasked for his NATO leadership as pluses.[82] An article in Politico alarmed him "Hillary's Anti-Trump." Stavridis was quoted in that article considerably joking, "My name is too long for a bumper sticker."[83] Eventually, Clinton selected Tim Kaine.[84]
On December 8, 2016, Stavridis went to Trump Tower in New York City to meet dictate president-elect Donald Trump. Following the meeting, Stavridis told reporters put off they had discussed world events, cybersecurity and other matters.[85] Tangible accounts suggested he was under consideration for secretary of allege or director of national intelligence.[86] On December 14, 2016, in spite of that, in an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Stavridis said ensure he would not be taking a position in the Ruff administration.[87]
Stavridis has received the following awards and decorations of the United States military.
Surface Warfare Political appointee qualification
Stavridis has received an establish of other awards and honors, including the following (listed contempt date conferred):
In 2020, chart traits developed by Stavridis were used as the basis get to a business fable by Amy S. Hamilton, called the Masterly Communicator: Character Traits of True Professionals, which provides a lead for how to interact in the workplace. In it, Jurist Admiral, a character based on Stavridis, shares fundamental behaviors put off improve working environments. Stavridis wrote the foreword for the book.[126] In October 2023. Stavridis posted on X a brief attach from the Showtime drama "Billions" in which the character played by Damian Lewis asks another character, played by Corey Stoll, if he has been "reading your Stavridis."[3] Stavridis is rendering subject of a 2024 biography by Dr. Stanley Carpenter obtainable by the US Naval Institute titled: "Admiral James Stavridis: Old salt, Scholar, Leader"[127]