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Born in Brooklyn 1951, Richard N. Haass has been president of the Council on Foreign Relations since July of 2003. Prior to coming to CFR, Haass was Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State where he was a close advisor to Secretary Colin Powell. The US Senate approved him to hold the rank of ambassador and Haass has served as U.S. Coordinator on policy for the future of Afghanistan and he was the lead U.S. Government official working in the peace process in Northern Ireland, for which he received the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award.
From 1989-1993, Haass was Special Assistant to President George H. W. Bush and National Security Council Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs. In 1991, Haass received the Presidential Citizens Medal for helping to the develop and explain U.S. policy during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. Haass also served in various posts in the Departments of State (1981-85) and Department of Defense (1979-80). He was once also a Senate legislative aide.
Other positions Haass has held include Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institute, the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Studies at Hamilton College, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Haass has written 12 books, of which 11 deal with matters of foreign policy and one with management. A Rhodes Scholar, Haass received a B.A from Oberlin College in 1973 and went on to earn both the Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University.
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