Mark Chichester is a Principal in the Atlas Group of companies and provides executive leadership at Atlas Research and Atlas International Partners.  He has more than 16 years of senior management experience in a career that has spanned the public and private sectors, including stints at General Instrument Corporation, the US Department of State, the Institute for International Public Policy, and, most recently, the Aspen Institute, where he served as vice president and developed and managed a portfolio of seminars on a diverse range of topics, including bioethics and health care, climate change and energy sustainability, international security, media, religion, leadership, democracy, technology, and innovation. 

Chichester has been a member of the U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Eisenhower National Security Series Working Group and the Council on Foreign Relations, where he co-chaired the Washington Term Member Advisory Committee.  He is currently a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Pacific Council on International Policy.  He was named to the U.S. Trade Representative's Trade Advisory Committee on Africa and serves on a variety of nonprofit and corporate boards. 

Chichester holds degrees in business and law from The George Washington University and held a Shapiro Fellowship in the Republic of Korea.