Lester Hyman

[3] For the Clinton administration, Hyman vetted candidates for Vice President, Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury, Director of the CIA, and the U.S. Supreme Court, including preparation for the senatorial confirmation hearings.

President Clinton appointed Hyman to the Presidential Delegation, which represented the United States at the 1996 Peace Accord signing in Guatemala that ended a 36-year civil war.

In the federal government, Hyman served as an attorney with the Corporation Finance Division of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, and later as a senior consultant to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Additionally, he has been involved in peace resolution efforts in Africa, as well as legal and governmental issues in Japan, France, Korea, Germany, England, Lebanon, Russia, and the Caribbean.

[8] He is a member of the board and chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of the not-for-profit Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), and has taught a course in "Decision-Making in Politics" at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.