Philip Zelikow | |
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| 27th Counselor of the United States Department of State | |
| In office February 1, 2005 – January 2, 2007 | |
| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Wendy Sherman |
| Succeeded by | Eliot A. Cohen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Philip David Zelikow September 21, 1954 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Education | University of Redlands (BA) University of Houston (JD) Tufts University (MA PhD) |
Philip David Zelikow (/ˈzɛlɪkoʊ/; born 21 September 1954) is an American diplomat and international relations scholar.
He has worked as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, and counselor of the United States Department of State.
He is the Botha-Chan Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution after serving for 25 years as the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia. In the fall of 2009 he was American Academy in Berlin Axel Springer Fellow.