Mark H. Chichester, JD

Mark Howard Chichester is President and Co-founder of Atlas Research. Prior to the launch of the company in 2008, Mr. Chichester served as a Vice President at The Aspen Institute and as Executive Director of Aspen's Socrates Society, where he developed and oversaw a portfolio of programs in areas ranging from bioethics, health care reform, climate change, and energy sustainability; to international security, media and values, religion, democracy, technology, and innovation. While at Aspen, he launched the Socrates Salon Series, inaugurated in Silicon Valley in 2008, and worked with senior government officials whose collective tenures spanned the Obama, Clinton, Bush, and Reagan administrations.

Mr. Chichester served on the executive staff of former Congressman Bill Gray at UNCF, where he oversaw the Institute for International Public Policy, the Center for Assessment, Planning and Accountability, and was Congressman Gray’s principal international affairs speechwriter.

He served as a member and, ultimately, chairman of the board of the National Education Association (NEA) Foundation; as a member of the board of directors of the Forum on Education Abroad; and currently serves as a trustee of The George Washington University, where he also served on the search committees for the president and dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs.  In addition to his board service, Mr. Chichester was a member of the U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Eisenhower National Security Series Working Group; a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he co-chaired the Washington Term Member Advisory Committee; and an appointee to the U.S. Trade Representative's Trade Advisory Committee on Africa.

Mr. Chichester holds degrees in business and law from The George Washington University, where he received The George Washington Award, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Medal for Outstanding Contributions in Human Rights, and the Baer Leadership Award. He held a Shapiro Fellowship in the Republic of Korea and was an Executive Seminarian of the Aspen Institute.