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Ashton B. Carter

Barack Obama Administration

**Full Bio Forthcoming**

 

October 6, 20011- December 3, 2013

 

B.A., Yale, 1976

D.Phil, Oxford University, 1979

Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, 1993-1996

Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, 1996-2009

Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, 2009-2011