June 2004
Vol. X, No. 2
Institute People
Two New Board Members Join Institute
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J. Robinson West and Laurie S. Fulton became the Institute's newest board members when they were sworn in for the board meeting held in late January. They replace outgoing board members Marc E. Leland and Harriet Zimmerman.
Fulton is a distinguished attorney with a national trial practice in federal and state courts in complex civil litigation and criminal defense. She has served as counsel in product liability litigation, mass tort litigation defense, and class action lawsuits. Her criminal defense practice includes federal criminal antitrust, bank gratuities, and wire fraud. A graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Georgetown University Law Center, Fulton previously served as the executive director for Peace Links and for ACCESS, a security information service. Her government service includes work for Senator James Abourezk (D-South Dakota) and Representative (now Senator) Thomas Daschle (D-South Dakota). She is on the board of directors of Bright Beginnings and formerly served on the boards of both Peace Links and ACCESS.
West is the chairman of PFC Energy Team, a leading consulting firm on the international energy industry, which he founded in 1984. Before founding PFC, he served in the Reagan administration as assistant secretary of the interior for policy, budget, and administration, with responsibility for U.S. offshore oil policy. He was a first vice president of Blyth, Eastman, Dillon & Co., an investment banking firm, from 1977 to 1980. Before that, he served in the Ford administration as deputy assistant secretary of defense for international economic affairs and on the White House staff. He is a member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, the National Petroleum Council, and the Council on Foreign Relations, and is president of the Wyeth Endowment for American Art. He received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a J.D. from Temple University.
New Public Affairs Director Kay King
Kay King joined the Institute in February 2004; she directs outreach to Congress, the media, and the public. Previously, she was president of King Strategies, a government and international relations consulting practice. She served in the U.S. Department of State as deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, the State Department's primary liaison to the U.S. Senate. King was the first executive director of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, a not-for-profit organization of international affairs graduate schools worldwide. She was senior legislative assistant to Senator Joseph R. Biden (D-Delaware) when he was the ranking member of the European Affairs Subcommittee. She has held several positions at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York, including associate director of its Project on European-American Relations. She is a member of CFR, Women in International Security, and the American Council on Germany, and has served in several key roles in the Women's Foreign Policy Group. She is co-author of two studies on international affairs education. King earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Vassar College and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
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