page_title: Richard Danzig
section_title: Professorship
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Danzig / Professorship
caption_attribution_description: Richard Danzig, Secretary of the Navy, gives his keynote speech at the Red Herring annual innovation conference, in Carlsbad, California.
context_page_description: Richard Jeffrey Danzig is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton. He served as an advisor of the President Barack Obama during his presidential campaign and was later the Chairman of the national security think-tank, the Center for a New American Security.
context_section_description: Between 1972 and 1977, Danzig taught contract law at Stanford and Harvard Universities. He also was awarded a Prize Fellowship of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. From 1977 to 1981, he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), first as a Deputy Assistant Secretary and then as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics.  In 1981, he was awarded the Defense Distinguished Public Service Award.
caption: Danzig gives his keynote speech at the Red Herring annual innovation conference, in Carlsbad, California on October 30, 2000.
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