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Jeffrey Bergner

Jeffrey Bergner

Corporate lobbyist
Project for the New American Century: Signatory
Hudson Institute: Trustee

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last updated: 11/20/2003

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Institutional Affiliations

  • Hudson Institute: Member, Board of Trustees (1)
  • Asia Foundation: Member, Board of Trustees (1)
  • Project for the New American Century (PNAC): Signed several PNAC letters (4)
  • Calvert Institute: Affiliate (5)
  • University of Pennsylvania: Former Assistant Professor (5)
  • University of Michigan: Former Visiting Professor (5)
  • Government Service

  • U.S. Commission on National Security-21st Century (Hart-Rudman Commission): Study Group Member (5)
  • Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Staff Director (1985-86) (1)
  • Corporate Connections/Business Interests

  • NB: Bergner’s lobbying firm--Bergner, Bockorny, Castagnetti, Hawkins & Brain--represents a passel of high profile companies and defense contractors, including Bristol-Myers Squib, Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Phillip Morris, Monsanto, Lucent, and Dell. (2)
  • Education

  • Carleton College: B.A., 1969 (5)
  • Princeton University: M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics and Philosophy (1)
  • Highlights & Quotes

    Bergner, a former Senate staffer and corporate lobbyist with strong ties to several major right-wing organizations, was included in Public Citizen’s report “Most Popular Drug Industry Lobbyists in 2000 and Their Revolving Door Connections.” (3) His lobbying firm, Bergner, Bockorny, Castagnetti, Hawkins & Brain, represents a number of high profile firms, including Bristol-Myers Squib, Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Phillip Morris, Monsanto, Lucent, and Dell. (2)

    He is a close associate of Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), having worked as his administrative assistant and on his presidential campaign in 1995 and 1996. (1)

    His books include The New Superpowers: Germany, Japan and the United States in the New World Order (St. Martin's Press, 1991), The Taiwan Relations Act: A Decade of Implementation, co-edited with William Bader (Hudson-SRI, 1989), and The Origin of Formalism in Social Science (University of Chicago Press, 1981). (5)

     


      Sources

    (1) BBCH&B Team
    http://www.bbchb.com/teampage.html

    (2) Center for Responsive Politics 2000 Data: Jeffrey Bergner
    http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/lobbyist.asp?ID=2397&year=2000

    (3) “Most Popular Drug Industry Lobbyists in 2000 and Their Revolving Door Connections,” Public Citizen
    http://old.citizen.org/congress/drugs/pharmadrugwar.html

    (4) Project for the New American Century Search: Bergner
    http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=2557452&pid=r&mode=ALL&query=Bergner&t=s

    (5) U.S. Commission on National Security-21st Century (Hart-Rudman Commission): Study Group Member Jeffrey T. Bergner
    http://www.nssg.gov/About_Us/People/Study_Group_Staff/Jeffrey_Bergner/jeffrey_bergner.htm


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