Biographical Note
Foreign policy advisor, political scientist, educator, and author. Full name: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski.
Born in Warsaw, Poland, on March 28, 1928, Zbigniew Brzezinski moved with his family to Canada in 1938 and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1958. Dr. Brzezinski served as instructor and assistant professor at Harvard, 1953-1960, and as assistant professor and professor at Columbia University, 1962-1977. While still at Columbia, he served as the first director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 until 1976, which led to his position as foreign policy advisor to the Jimmy Carter presidential campaign. From 1977 until 1981, Brzezinski served as national security advisor within the Carter administration. He returned to his professorship at Columbia in 1981 and continued there until moving to Johns Hopkins University in 1989. In 1981, Brzezinski also accepted a position as counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.