Zbigniew Brzezinski is a Counselor at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

From 1977 to 1981, he was the National Security Advisor to the President of the United States. From 1966 to 1968, he was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State. From 1973 to 1976 he was Director of the Trilateral Commission, and in the 1968 presidential campaign he was chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force. In the 1976 presidential campaign he was the principal foreign policy advisor to Jimmy Carter. In 1981 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1985 he was a member of the President’s Chemical Warfare Commission. From 1987 to 1988 he was a member of the NSC-Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy. From 1987 to 1989, he was a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. In 1988 he was co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force.

He is an Honorary Chairman for the AmeriCares Foundation, Co-Chairman for the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, member of the Board of Directors for the Jamestown Foundation, member of the Board of Trustees for the International Crisis Group, Trustee of the Trilateral Commission, member of the Board of Directors for the Polish-American Enterprise Fund and of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation, Honorary Board member of American Friends of Rabin Medical Center, Chairman of the International Advisory Board for the Yale Project on “The Culture & Civilization of China,” member of the International Honorary Committee and of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, Council on Foreign Relations, Atlantic Council, and the National Endowment for Democracy.