Leon E. Panetta
served as United States Congressman, Budget Director, White House Chief of Staff, CIA Director, and the 23rd Secretary of Defense of the United States. He is the author of “Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace” (Penguin Press, 2014). He chairs the Panetta Institute for Public Policy in Monterey, CA, and is a Senior Counselor at Beacon Global Strategies, a business advisory firm.