Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski is a Counselor and Trustee for the Center for Strategic & International Studies and Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. He also serves as co-chair of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya and is a Trustee of Freedom House, International Crisis Group, and the Trilateral Commission. Brzezinski is an honorary chairman of the AmeriCares Foundation and member of the Board of Directors of Polish American Freedom Foundation and Polish American Enterprise Fund. From 1977 to 1981, he served as National Security Advisor to the President of the United States and in 1981 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom “for his role in the normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States.” A graduate of McGill and Harvard (PhD, 1953), Brzezinski is the author most recently of THE GRAND CHESSBOARD: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives and THE GRAND FAILURE: The Birth and Death of Communism in the 20th Century, as well as other books and many articles in numerous U.S. foreign academic journals.