Author: Richard N. Haass
Born: 1951
Bio: - 2003 - date: President of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York

 - 2001-2003: Director for Policy Planning - US State Department, Washington D. C. and Special Envoy to the Northern Ireland Peace Process

 - 1989-1993: Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council and Special Assistant to President George H. W. Bush

 - Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings Institution, New York, N. T-

 - Sol M. Linowitz visiting professor of international studies at Hamilton College

 - Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 - Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government

 - Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies

 - MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University

 - BA from Oberlin College

(from Council of Foreign Relations biography for media use)