| Leslie H. Gelb  AKA Leslie Howard Gelb
Born: 4-Mar-1937
Birthplace: New Rochelle, NY
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Government Nationality: United States
Executive summary: President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993-2003 Wife: Judith Cohen (m. 2-Aug-1959, three children)
High School: New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle, NY (1955)
University: BA, Tufts University
University: MA, Harvard University
University: PhD, Harvard University
Professor: Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University (1965-66)
Professor: Visiting Professor, Georgetown University (1969-73)
Administrator: Trustee, Tufts University
Council on Foreign Relations President (1993-2003)
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Senior Associate (1980-81)
Ploughshares Fund Advisory Board
The New York Times National Security Correspondent (1981-93)
US Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs (1977-79)
Brookings Institution Senior Fellow (1969-73)
US Defense Department Director of Policy Planning & Arms Control for Intl. Security Affairs (1967-69)
Congressional Staff Exec. Asst. to Sen. Jacob K. Javits (1966-67)
Pulitzer Prize Explanatory Journalism (1985)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
International Crisis Group Board
Nixon Center Board of Directors
Pacific Council on International Policy
VoteVets Board of Advisors
Watson Institute Overseer
Author of books:
The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked (1980, co-author)
Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy (1984, co-author)
Anglo-American Relations, 1945-1950: Toward a Theory of Alliances (1988)
Claiming the Heavens (1988, co-author, about Star Wars program)
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