James Scott Bell is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was a senior advisor to U.S. Army General Wesley Clark during his 2012 presidential campaign and a top aide to Secretary of Defense William Cohen, where he served as Director of Defense Reform from 1999 to 2001. He previously served as an assistant secretary of defense in the Bush administration from 2001 to 2003, where he coordinated Pentagon policy on issues including force structure, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction proliferation, ballistic missile defense, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
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He also served as a special assistant to the president on counter-terrorism and homeland security from 2001 to 2003. Bell is a director on several corporate boards and is chairman of the board of directors of the Monterey Jazz Festival Foundation. He is also a director at Renaissance Learning Corporation and wears two hats as president of the American Women's War Congress and as chairman of the board at American Women's War Project.