 Zbigniew Brzezinski served as national security advisor to the president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. In 1981, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations, and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States. This former member of the Columbia University (1960-89) and Harvard University (1953-60) faculties is currently with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, is a professor of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and is a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. His other positions include being an honorary Chairman of the AmeriCares Foundation (a private philanthropic humanitarian aid organization); Co-Chairman, American Committee for Peace in Chechnya; Member of the Board of Trustees of Freedom House (a non-profit institution dedicated to the promotion of freedom); Trustee of the Trilateral Commission (a cooperative American-European-Japanese forum); Member of the Board of Directors of the Polish-American Enterprise Fund and of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation; Chairman of the American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee; and Chairman of the International Advisory Board for the Yale Project on "The Culture & Civilization of China"; etc. Additionally, he serves as an international advisor to several major U.S./global corporations, and is president of Z.B., Inc., a firm that advises corporations and financial institutions on international issues. Brzezinski is a public speaker, commentator on major domestic and foreign TV public affairs programs, and frequent contributor to domestic and foreign newspapers and journals. He is author of several books on international affairs, including Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century and The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives. His former public and political positions include serving as director of the Trilateral Commission (1973-76), member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State (1966-68), and co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force (1988). He is also a past member of the Boards of Directors of Amnesty International and the Council on Foreign Relations.
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