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James Strock is a writer, speaker and entrepreneur based in San Francisco and Scottsdale, Arizona.

Mr. Strock, a frequent commentator and speaker on leadership and personal development, is a senior fellow for Executive Education at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. He is the author of Reagan on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Great Communicator, and Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Bully Pulpit.

Listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in Finance and Business, Mr. Strock is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Authors Guild, the National Speakers Association, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Association for Conflict Resolution. He is a trustee of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, and on the director's council of The School of Global Studies at Arizona State University. He is a member of the boards of the Global Nature Fund/Living Lakes Network (Germany), and the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States; and a member of the newly-reconstituted Committee on the Present Danger, working across party lines to build public support for the war against Islamo-fascism.

Mr. Strock served in Governor Pete Wilson's cabinet as California's first Secretary for Environmental Protection, serving from 1991-97. Among the Agency's numerous recognitions during his tenure was a $100,000 "Innovation" award from Harvard University and the Ford Foundation.

Previously he served in President George H.W. Bush's sub-cabinet as Assistant Administrator for Enforcement (chief law enforcement officer) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1989 to 1991.

Mr. Strock graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and served to captain in the USAR-JAGC.