EAST LANSING, Mich. - Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Carter, will be the featured speaker at a luncheon on Monday, Oct. 16, at Michigan State University.
The luncheon begins at 12:30 p.m. at the Kellogg Center and is sponsored by the James Madison College Founders Circle.
"We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Brzezinski to campus," said Sherman Garnett, dean of James Madison College. "His contributions to international human rights and the national security policies of the United States are unparalleled. His visit provides a unique opportunity for the university community to learn about the foreign policy challenges facing the United States in the next decade."
Brzezinski is currently counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University.
Tickets for the luncheon are $25.
[NOTE TO MEDIA: Reporters covering this event will be admitted free. To arrange an interview with Brzezinski, call Kim Allan, James Madison College, at (517) 353-3381.]
About Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Former National Security Adviser to President Carter.
- Currently Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University.
- Awarded 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 the national security policies of the United States.
- Public and Pro Bono Honorary Chairman of the AmeriCares Foundation (a private philanthropic humanitarian aid organization).
- Member of the Board of Trustees of Freedom House (a nonprofit institution dedicated to the promotion of freedom).
- Trustee of the Trilateral Commission (a cooperative of American, European and Japanese forums).
- 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.
- Chairman of the International Advisory Board for the Yale Project on "The Culture and Civilization of China."
- Member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State, 1985.
- Member of the President's Chemical Warfare Commission, 1987-88.
- Member of the NSC-Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy, 1987-89.
- Member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
- Director of the Trilateral Commission, 1973-1976.
- Columbia University faculty, 1960-89.
- Harvard University faculty, 1953-60.
- Ph.D. from Harvard University, 1953.
- B.A. and M.A. from McGill University, 1949 and 1950.
- Author of "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives"; also author of the best-seller "The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the 20th Century."
- Awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest civilian decoration, for his contributions to recovery by Poland of its independence, 1995.