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Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017) was national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. In 1981 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the normalization of U.S.-China relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States.
In presidential campaigns, Brzezinski served as chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force in 1968; as principal foreign policy advisor to Jimmy Carter in 1976; and as co-chairman of the Bush National Security Task Force in 1988. He has been on the faculty of Harvard and Columbia Universities, and is the author of many articles and books. He was later associated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C. |
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Greg Thielmann has served more than three decades in the executive and legislative branches of government, specializing in political-military and intelligence issues. Greg served on the board of the Arms Control Association from 2003 to 2005. He joined the staff as a Senior Fellow in 2009, providing research on threat assessments, nuclear missile proliferation, and U.S.-Russian strategic arms control.
He previously worked for four years as a senior professional staffer of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and was a U.S. Foreign Service Officer for 25 years, last serving as Director of the Strategic, Proliferation and Military Affairs Office in the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. His foreign posts include Deputy Political Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil; Political-Military Affairs Officer in Moscow, USSR; and Political-Military Affairs Officer in Bonn, Germany. Thielmann also served as Deputy Director of the State Department’s Office of German, Austrian and Swiss Affairs; Special Assistant to Ambassador Paul Nitze (then Special Adviser to the President and Secretary of State on Arms Control Matters); and State Department advisor to the U.S. Delegation at the Geneva INF arms control negotiations. |
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Thomas Hubbard was a career foreign service officer for nearly forty years. He served as US Ambassador to the Republic of Korea from 2001 to 2004, and the Ambassador to the Philippines from 1996 to 2000. Earlier in his career, Hubbard served seven years in Japan and was Deputy Chief of Mission and acting Ambassador in Malaysia. He held key Washington postings, including Philippines Desk Officer, Country Director for Japan, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs. A fluent Japanese speaker, he devoted half his career to Japan-US relations.
Increasingly involved in Korean Peninsular affairs in the 1990s, Ambassador Hubbard was a principal negotiator of the 1994 Agreed Framework aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, and headed the first senior level US government delegation to North Korea. He was also President Clinton’s envoy to promote human rights and democracy in Burma. |