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Richard Norman Perle (born September 16, 1941) is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs who served under President Ronald Reagan. He began his political career as a senior staff member to Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970s. He served on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004 where he served as chairman from 2001 to 2003 under the Bush Administration before resigning due to conflict of interests.
He has been involved with several think-tanks throughout his career including the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) Board of Advisors, the Center for Security Policy (CSP), the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (as a resident fellow), the neoconservative Project for the New American Century (PNAC), and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). Until December 2015 He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group. He is also a patron of the Henry Jackson Society. Aside from these engagements, Perle is the former co-chairman and director of Hollinger, Inc., a partner of Trireme Partners, a non-executive director of Autonomy Corporation, and is on the board of the global data collection firm RIWI Corp. Perle has written extensively on a number of issues. His cited research interests including defense, national security, and the Middle East.

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