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Antonia Handler Chayes

Antonia Handler Chayes is a board member and Senior Advisor of Conflict Management Group (CMG), a non-profit conflict resolution consulting firm. Chayes is currently Director of Planning for Civil-Military Cooperation, an Executive Program focusing on effective joint planning between civil and military organizations for intervention in complex contingency operations. The program was developed with the National Security Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Chayes is also a member of the Steering Committee of Imagine Coexistence, a project jointly developed by UNHCR and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She managed the Carnegie Conflict Prevention Project, whose focus was conflict prevention in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and produced several books on that topic. Chayes is a Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, where she helped develop and participates in the Kennedy School's South Africa program.

She has served as director of United Technologies Corporation since 1981, and is a member of its Executive Committee. She is a member of the Aspen Institute Core Group on Strategy and Arms Control and serves on the Board of Directors of The Arms Control Association. Chayes has served as Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown School of Law and Dean of the Jackson School of Tufts University.

During the Carter Administration, Chayes was Under Secretary of the US Air Force. Before her promotion to Under Secretary, she was Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Installations.