Henry Stanislaus Rowen (October 11, 1925 – November 12, 2015) was an American national security expert, economist, and academician.
Rowen was born in Boston in 1925. He attended M.I.T. and graduated with a bachelor's in industrial management in 1949. He went on to Oxford University and earned his master's degree in economics in 1955.
Rowen started his career as an economist for the RAND Corporation, a Santa Monica, California think-tank, where he worked between 1950 and 1953, and again between 1955 and 1960.
Between 1965 and 1966, Rowen was the assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget.
From 1967 to 1972, he was the president of RAND Corporation.
From 1981 to 1983, he was the chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
Between 1989 and 1991, Rowen served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense, under Dick Cheney.
From 2001 to 2004 he served on the Secretary of Defense Policy Advisory Board.
Between 2002 and 2003, Rowen chaired the United States Department of Energy's Task Force on the Future of Science Programs.
On February 12, 2004, President Bush named Rowen as a member of the Commission on Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (the "WMD Commission"),[1] a position that he held until 2005.
Since 1983, Rowen had been a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Rowen's research was most recently focused on Asia's rise in the technology sector.
Henry Rowen was married to Beverly Griffiths. He died on November 12, 2015, in Menlo Park, California from a heart attack, at the age of 90.[1] He was survived by his wife, three daughters, and three sons.
Rowen wrote frequently for foreign policy publications:
He has also co-edited a number of books: