Dr. Les Gelb is President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served as a senior official in the State Department and the Department of Defense, where he earned the Pentagon's highest civilian honor, the "Distinguished Service Award". While a correspondent for The New York Times, Dr. Gelb held multiple journalistic and editorial positions, earning a Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for Explanatory Journalism. Dr. Gelb has been a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Brookings Institution, as well as a visiting professor at Georgetown University and an associate professor at Wesleyan University. His publications include many articles, opinion pieces, and books on topics ranging from Anglo-American relations to an analysis of the Star Wars defense program, including: Anglo-American Relations, 1945-1950: Toward a Theory of Alliances (1988). Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy (1984), and Claiming the Heavens (1988). He is co-author of The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked (1980), which won him the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Award. Dr. Gelb received a B.A. from Tufts University in 1959, and an M.A. in 1961 and Ph.D. in 1964 from Harvard University. Dr. Gelb is among America's most widely heralded experts on U.S. foreign policy and national security.