Philip Zelikow

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  Philip Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia.

  He was counselor at the Department of State, a deputy to Secretary Rice, from 2005-2007. From 1998-2005, Zelikow directed the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs as well as three bipartisan commissions, including the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission) from 2003-2004. Previously, Zelikow served as a career foreign service officer at State and on the White House National Security Council, where he was involved as a senior White House staffer in the diplomacy surrounding the reunification of Germany and the diplomatic settlements accompanying the end of the Cold War in Europe. He is currently a member of the board for the global development program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

  Zelikow received his baccalaureate degree from the University of Redlands, a law degree from the University of Houston, and his master’s and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

  He is the author of The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis (Belknap Press, 1997) with Ernest R. May; Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, with Graham Allison (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1999); and Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft, with Condoleezza Rice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995).