- 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)
