Ian Brzezinski

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Ian Brzezinski

Ian Joseph Brzezinski (born December 23, 1963 ) is an American expert on foreign policy and military affairs. From 2001 to 2005 he was Deputy Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy in the United States Department of Defense during the presidency of George W. Bush .

family

Ian Brzezinski is the son of security advisor and geopolitician Zbigniew Brzezinski and artist Emilie Benes Brzezinski , brother of US lawyer and foreign policy expert Mark Brzezinski and television journalist Mika Brzezinski . He is the cousin of the writer Matthew Brzezinski .

He is married to Ginny Flynn-Brzezinski. They have one son, William Zbigniew Brzezinski (born 1999).

career

Ian Brzezinski graduated from the prestigious Williams College in 1986 . He then worked from 1986 to 1987 as an assistant in the US government's National Security Council. From 1991 to 1993 he was a member of the planning team in the Ministry of Defense and from 1991 to 1992 advisor to the Center for Naval Analysis.

Between 1993 and 1994, Ian Brzezinski served as a volunteer advisor to the Government of Ukraine , assisting the National Security Council , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense and the Parliament of Ukraine . In 1995 he returned to the United States to serve as National Security Legal Advisor to Senator William V. Roth . In 2000 he became a member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee ( Committee on Foreign Relations ). He served from 2001 to 2005 as Deputy State Secretary in the Ministry of Defense for European and NATO Policy.

After leaving the Department of Defense, he became director of Booz Allen Hamilton , a consultancy that provides military assistance. After five years, he left Booz Allen Hamilton and is now a director of Brzezinski Group , LLC in Alexandria, Virginia, a consulting firm for international clients in the finance, energy and defense sectors. According to his own presentation, this support offers "to navigate geopolitical developments (navigate), to develop and implement market access and strategies for using opportunities (opportunity capture strategies) and to manage relationships with government agencies." Brzezinski is also a member of the Strategic Advisors Group in the North Atlantic Council . In 2010 he was named a Lead Fellow for the Council's International Security Program.

Brzezinski is a frequent contributor to foreign policy issues in the US press.

Awards

Ian Brzezinski received the following awards for his public service:

supporting documents

  1. ^ Roth Staff Delivers
  2. ↑ State Department Reform ( Memento of the original dated August 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cfr.org
  3. ↑ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ian-brzezinski/59/509/b37
  4. ↑ Ian Brzezinski New Atlantic Council Senior Fellow ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.acus.org
  5. ^ NATO and America , Obama's Five Challenges at Lisbon , NATO's missing agenda item in Lisbon
personal data
SURNAME Brzezinski, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brzezinski, Ian Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American expert on foreign policy and military affairs
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century