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Counselor, Center for Strategic & International Studies; and Robert Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy, the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.
 
From 1977 to 1981, National Security Advisor to the President of the United States.  In 1981 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.”
 

OTHER CURRENT ACTIVITIES

Public and Pro Bono Honorary Chairman, AmeriCares Foundation (a private philanthropic humanitarian aid organization); Co-Chairman, American Committee for Peace in Chechnya; Member, Board of Trustees, Freedom House (a non-profit institution dedicated to the promotion of freedom); Trustee, Trilateral Commission (a cooperative American-European-Japanese forum); Member, Board of Directors, Polish-American Enterprise Fund and of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation; Member, Honorary Board of American Friends of Rabin Medical Center; Chairman, International Advisory Board for the Yale Project on “The Culture & Civilization of China”; etc.
 
Private Sector: International advisor to major U.S./global corporations; frequent participant in annual business/trade conventions; also a frequent public speaker, commentator on major domestic and foreign TV programs, and contributor to domestic and foreign newspapers and journals.
 
 
PAST ACTIVITIES
 
U.S. Government: Member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of  State; 1985, Member of the President’s Chemical Warfare Commission; 1987-88, Member of the NSC-Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy; 1987-89, Member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (a Presidential commission to oversee U.S. intelligence activities).
 
Public and Political: 1973-76, Director of the Trilateral Commission; in the 1968 presidential campaign, chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force; in the 1976 presidential campaign, principal foreign policy advisor to Jimmy Carter.  In 1988, co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force.  Past Member of Boards of Directors of Amnesty International, Council on Foreign Relations, Atlantic Council, the National Endowment for Democracy.
 
Academic: On the faculty of Columbia University 1960-89; on the faculty of Harvard University 1953-60.  Ph.D., Harvard University, 1953; B.A. and M.A., McGill University 1949 & 1950.  His most recent book is THE GRAND CHESSBOARD: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives; Also author of the best-seller THE GRAND FAILURE: The Birth and Death of Communism in the 20^th Century, as well as of OUT OF CONTROL: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21^st Century; GAME PLAN: How to Conduct the U.S.-Soviet Contest; POWER AND PRINCIPLE: Memoirs of the National Security Advisor, 1977-1981; THE FRAGILE BLOSSOM: Crisis and Change in Japan; BETWEEN TWO AGES: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era; THE SOVIET BLOC: Unity and Conflict; and of other books and many articles in numerous U.S. and Foreign academic journals.
 
Honors:  In 1995, awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest civilian decoration, for his contributions to recovery by Poland of its independence; also highest civilian decorations from the governments of Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, and Slovakia.  Honorary degrees from Georgetown University, Williams College, Fordham University, College of the Holy Cross, Alliance College, the Catholic University of Lublin, Warsaw University, the University of Tbilisi, the University of Vilnius, the Ukrainian Free University, the Jagiellonian University, Comenius University (Bratislava); Honorary Citizenship from the City of Lviv; Centennial Medal of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences of Harvard University; the Hubert Humphrey Award for Public Service from the American Political Science Association; the U Thant Award; the David Rockefeller International Leadership Award; as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Ford Foundation, etc.  In 1969, elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  In 1963, selected by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of America’s Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Year.
 
 
PERSONAL:  Born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928; son of a diplomat posted to Canada in 1938;  married to Emilie Anna (Muska) Benes, a graduate of Wellesley College, sculptor; three children: Ian, Mark, Mika.

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