James George Stavridis (born February 15, 1955) is a retired United States Navy admiral, currently an operating executive with the Carlyle Group and chair of the board of counselors at McLarty Associates. In August 2018, he stepped down as the dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a graduate school for international affairs. Stavridis serves as the chief international diplomacy and national security analyst for NBC News in New York. He is also chair Emeritus of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Naval Institute and a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.