Gordon Humphrey is a member of the Freedom and Prosperity Center’s Advisory Council. He served two terms in the US Senate, from 1979 to 1991, representing New Hampshire. He served on the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Armed Services Committee, and the Judiciary Committee. In keeping with a term-limit pledge he made before taking office, he did not seek a third term.

Humphrey has devoted his efforts to revitalizing US public diplomacy, for which he focused on the ethical persuasion of foreign audiences to the values of freedom and the rule of law, using broadcast and digital media—the Voice of America, for example—and person-to-person exchanges, among other means. Humphrey advocates for the restoration of public diplomacy to the levels of effectiveness it enjoyed during the final years of the Cold War when, in his words, “the US and other Western nations persuaded Soviet citizens that life on this side of the Iron Curtain was better than on theirs.” His articles have been published in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Hill.  Humphrey maintains a Russian-language YouTube channel directed to ordinary Russian citizens, featuring interviews with recent Russian immigrants in the United States. In 2023, he received the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire Global Leadership Award in recognition of his work to promote US diplomacy. He is also a member of the board of the Public Diplomacy Council of America.

Humphrey attended the University of Maryland, Burntside-Ott Aviation Institute, and George Washington University. He is a US Air Force veteran and a former airline pilot.