USBIC Staff

USBIC/USBICEF Staff

Kevin L. Kearns President	Kevin L. Kearns is the President of both the United States Business and Industry Council, and its affiliate, the USBIC Educational Foundation. The Council is a national nonprofit organization representing the interests of 1,000 companies, mainly family-owned and closely-held businesses, before the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch. The Foundation is the research arm of the Council, and in addition runs a college speakers program and a student newspaper syndicate. Prior to joining the Council and Foundation, Kearns was a Senior Fellow at the Manufacturing Policy Project and the Economic Strategy Institute in Washington, DC, where he specialized in business, international trade, and American industrial competitiveness issues. From 1977-90, Kearns was a career Foreign Service Officer holding a wide variety of positions both in Washington and abroad. His final position with State was Director, Office of Strategic Trade Policy, where he was responsible for overseeing U.S. government policy on commercial use of space, satellites, supercomputers, export controls, and missile nonproliferation. During his time with the State Department, Kearns was posted in Frankfurt, Bonn, Seoul, and Tokyo. He served in diverse positions, including economic and commercial officer, political officer, Ambassador’s aide, and Defense Exchange Officer at the Pentagon. In Tokyo he was the Deputy Chief, Mutual Defense Assistance Office, and was deeply involved in the FSX fighter plane negotiations. While serving in Washington, Kearns was a politicalmilitary officer overseeing U.S. security assistance programs to Latin America. He participated in the Grenada rescue operation in 1981 and spent significant time in El Salvador during the civil war there. While serving as Philippine desk officer, he was sent to Mindanao in the southern Philippines as an election observer during the MarcosAquino presidential election of 1986. Kearns received a State Department fellowship to serve as a Professional Staff Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he played a significant role in the FSX and Chinese launch of U.S.satellites debates. Before joining State, Kearns was campaign manager and then legislative counsel to N.Y. State Senator Sheldon Farber. He has testified before numerous Congressional committees including the Senate’s Foreign Relations, Finance, and Judiciary Committees and the House’s Foreign Affairs, Budget, and Energy and Commerce Committees. He recently appeared before the U.S. China Security Review Commission. Kearns is a regular contributor to and is frequently quoted in such publications as the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Journal of Commerce, the Christian Science Monitor, the Asahi Monthly and Bunkei Shinju on issues associated with competitiveness, business, economic, and hightechnology issues. Television appearances include ABC’s Prime Time Live, the CBS Evening News, CNBC’s Financial News, and CNN’s Headline News. Kearns is also a frequent guest on businessrelated subjects on talk radio shows across the country. A native of New York City, Kearns holds a B.A. from Fordham University, an M.A. from SUNY at Stony Brook, and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. He is a member of the bar in New York and DC. He has three children.

Alan Tonelson Research Fellow USBIC Educational Foundation	Alan Tonelson is Research Fellow at the USBIC Educational Foundation, a Washington research organization studying U.S. economic, technology, and national security policy. His new book, The Race to the Bottom: Why A Global Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade are Sinking American Living Standards, was recently published by Westview Press. Tonelson's articles on American politics, foreign policy, globalization, and technology policy have appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, The Harvard Business Review, The Los Angeles Times, The National Interest, and Issues in Science and Technology, as well as in several anthologies. In addition, Tonelson appears often on radio and television networks and programs, including The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, The Diane Rehm Show, The Nightly Business Report, CNN, TalkAmerica, and Global Economic Media. He is co-editor of Powernomics: Economics and Strategy after the Cold War (Economic Strategy Institute and Madison Books), and author of Made in China? America's Failed Trade Policies towards the People's Republic and Giving America the Business: The Business Roundtable's Shoddy Case for Corporate-Driven Trade Policies, both published by the USBIC Educational Foundation. Tonelson has testified before the Senate Commerce Committee, the Congressional Trade Deficit Review Commission, and the Congressional China Security Review Commission. And he has lectured at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute, The National Defense University, the Woodrow Wilson Center, Columbia University, Harvard University, The University of Virginia, the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Georgetown University, The College of William & Mary, the University of Southern California, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at San Diego, the University of San Francisco, the University of Oregon, the University of Washington, Boston University, the David Sarnoff Research Center, George Washington University, The American University, the World Affairs Councils of Philadelphia, Kansas City, and Hampton Roads (Va.), the Universities of East Anglia, Sussex, and Kent, and Bonn, and many other fora. His previous positions include Fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute and Associate Editor of Foreign Policy. Tonelson received a B.A. in history with highest honors from Princeton University in 1975. A native of New York City, he currently resides in Washington, D.C.
William R. Hawkins Senior Fellow in National Security Studies USBIC Educational Foundation	William R. Hawkins is Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the USBIC Education Foundation, where he specializes in international economics and national defense issues. Before joining the USBICEF, he served as Senior Research Analyst for Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) for five years -- the first year on the staff of the Republican Research Committee, which Rep. Hunter chaired, and the next four years on Rep. Hunter's personal staff, during which period when Rep. Hunter was chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Procurement. Hawkins also hosted the weekly radio program In the National Interest which was heard nationally on the Information and Entertainment America Network from 1997 to 2000. Prior to working on Capitol Hill, Hawkins served as director of the U.S. Business and Industry Council's (USBIC) Economic Security Action Center. In the 1980s, he was an economics professor at Appalachian State University, the University of North Carolina-Asheville, and Radford University. He holds graduate degrees in both Economics and History. Hawkins is the author of two monographs: Importing Revolution: Open Borders and the Radical Agenda (American Immigration Control Foundation, 1994), and America's Economic Preeminence: Goals for the 1990s (with Anthony Harrigan, USBIC, 1989). He has also contributed chapters to six other books including Selected Readings in Military History (U.S. Military Academy, 1993); America Asleep: The Free Trade Syndrome and the Global Economic Challenge (USBIC, 1991); Peace Betrayed? Essays on Pacifism and Politics (Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1990); and The New Federalist Papers (Claremont Institute, 1989). During the past 20 years, Hawkins has published over 140 articles, including pieces in The Naval War College Review, Parameters (Army War College), The National Interest, Strategic Review, The Journal of Economic History, The Weekly Standard, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Policy Review, Army, Military History, and National Review, among others. In addition, he is a frequent contributor of op-ed columns to newspapers and worked as a nationally syndicated columnist for the Knight-Ridder/Tribune Newswire 1991-1995.

Kirk Raymond Research Associate USBIC and USBIC Educational Foundation	Kirk Raymond serves as a Research Associate with USBIC and the USBIC Educational Foundation. He currently contributes content to the Foundation’s dedicated trade website [www.americaneconomicalert.org], writes articles for the Council’s weekly publications, and contributes to joint research projects for Council and Foundation research fellows. Prior to joining the Council and Foundation, Raymond worked as the Director of Research at the Council for Government Reform (CGR) from 1996-2000. During that time, he performed a variety of research projects related to Social Security Reform. He was a contributing editor for the publication Raid on Social Security: The Facts behind the Social Security Scandal. From 1992-1996, Raymond was a Director of Communications at the National Right to Work Committee. In that position, he wrote newsletter articles, created a wide variety of member relations pieces, and was project manager for the Committee’s 1994 Federal Survey program. Raymond received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a History minor from Adrian College in 1989. He was named Outstanding Political Science student of the year in 1989, was a member of Phi Alpha Theta history honorary society, and was active in Undergraduate Student Government. He received a Masters Fellowship at Southern Illinois University in 1990.