Vice Chair and Director
Malcolm Hoenlein serves as Vice Chair and a Director of the Council for a Secure America. He is Executive Vice Chairman Emeritus of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the central coordinating body on international and national concerns for the major national Jewish organizations, where he was elected CEO and Executive Vice Chairman in 1986 and led the organization for more than three decades.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Hoenlein was the founding Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater New York and, before that, the founding Executive Director of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry. He has met with heads of state and government, business leaders, and Jewish community leaders around the world, and he is frequently consulted on public policy. He co-hosts a weekly program on the nationally syndicated John Batchelor Show and offers a weekly commentary on the “JM in the AM” radio program.
Mr. Hoenlein received his B.A. in political science from Temple University and completed master’s and doctoral coursework at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of International Relations, where he was a National Defense Fellow and taught international relations. He has received honorary degrees and civic honors in the United States and abroad, and he was appointed by three U.S. presidents as a delegate to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
