ROBERT B. ZOELLICK
Robert B. Zoellick recently stepped down as the President and
CEO
of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. During
the 1997-98 academic year, he was the John M. Olin Professor of
National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval Academy. From 1993
to 1997, Mr. Zoellick served as an Executive Vice President at
Fannie Mae, the largest housing finance investor in the U.S.,
with a market capitalization of about $70 billion. During the
Bush Administration, Mr. Zoellick served as Counselor of the
Department of State (Under Secretary rank) and Under Secretary of
State for Economics. He later served as Deputy Chief of Staff at
the White House. Mr. Zoellick was also appointed the President's
personal representative, or Sherpa, for the G-7 Economic Summits
in 1991 and 1992.
Mr. Zoellick received the Distinguished Service Award, the
Department of State's highest honor. The German government
awarded him the Knight Commanders Cross for his role in
developing the U.S. strategy toward German unification and
service as the senior U.S. official in the "2 plus 4"
negotiations. From 1985 to 1988, Mr. Zoellick served at the
Department of the Treasury in various positions, including
Counselor to Secretary James A. Baker, III, Executive Secretary
of the Department, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial
Institutions Policy. Mr. Zoellick received the Alexander
Hamilton Award, the Department of the Treasury's highest
honor.
Raised in Naperville, Illinois, Mr. Zoellick received a J.D.
magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School and a Master of
Public Policy degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of
Government in 1981. He is a 1975 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
Swarthmore College. In 1980, Mr. Zoellick was a recipient of a
Luce Fellowship to Hong Kong. He currently serves on three
for-profit boards: Alliance Capital, Jones Intercable, Inc., and
Said Holdings. He is a member of Enron Corporations Advisory
Council.
Mr. Zoellick is the Director of the Aspen Institute's Strategy
Group on Foreign Policy. He serves on Secretary Cohen's Defense
Policy Board. He is a board member of the Council of Foreign
Relations, the German Marshall Fund of the U.S., the European
Institute, the Eurasia Foundation, the National Bureau of Asian
Research, the American Council on Germany, the American Institute
for Contemporary German Studies, and the Overseas Development
Council. Mr. Zoellick is a member of the Advisory Board for
Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),
the Board of Advisors of the Law & Economics Center at George
Mason University, the Advisory Committee of the Institute for
International Economics, The Brookings Institution's Advisory
Committees for the Foreign Policy and Economic Programs, the
Advisory Board of the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, the
World Wildlife Fund's Advisory Council, the U.S. Executive
Committee of the Trilateral Commission, the Advisory Board of the
Centre for European Reform in London, the Australian-American
Leadership Foundation, the Inter-American Dialogue, and the D.C.
Bar. He currently serves on the U.S. Postal Service Commission
on a Safe and Secure Workplace.
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