Philip Zelikow

Interview with Philip Zelikow

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Biographical Note:

Philip Zelikow served as counselor of the Department of State from 2005 to 2007. Before this appointment, Dr. Zelikow served as executive director of the 9/11 Commission, and as a member of George W. Bush's Foreign Advisory Board (2001-03). Prior to the George W. Bush administration, Zelikow worked both in government and in the academic world, including as a member of the National Security Council (in the George H.W. Bush administration) and as a professor at Harvard University and the University of Virginia. Dr. Zelikow earned his Ph.D. in international relations from Tufts University. 

Citation:

Philip Zelikow, interview by Aaron Crawford and Peter Feaver, 24 March 2015. "The Surge" Collective Memory Project, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University.