For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
August 15, 2003
Statement by the Press Secretary
National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice announced the appointment of Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill as Deputy Assistant to
the President and Coordinator for Strategic Planning to the National
Security Advisor. Ambassador Blackwill will work with government-wide
policy planning operations to help develop and coordinate the mid- and
long-term direction of American foreign policy.
Ambassador Blackwill comes to the National Security Council after
having most recently served as the U.S. Ambassador to India beginning
July 2001. Prior to this diplomatic posting, Ambassador Blackwill was
the Belfer Lecturer in International Security at Harvard University's
John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he taught foreign and
defense policy and qualitative public policy analysis. During his 14
years at Harvard, he was Associate Dean of the Kennedy School and
faculty chairman of the School's Executive Program for U.S. and Russian
General Officers, of the School's Chinese Security Studies Program, and
of the Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative. He is the author of
many books and articles on international security.
During his Foreign Service career, Ambassador Blackwill served as
Political Counselor in Embassy Tel Aviv, as Director of West European
Affairs on the NSC staff, as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State for Political-Military Affairs, as Principal Negotiator at the
negotiations with the Warsaw Pact on Conventional Forces in Europe, and
as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European
and Soviet Affairs on the NSC staff in 1989-90.
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