Leslie H. Gelb
Leslie H. Gelb is the president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. Gelb is associated with the US Department of Defense and was director of the Pentagon Papers project (creation of the papers that were eventually leaked by Daniel Elsberg). He then was editor and columnist at the New York Times for twelve years.
Gelb is also on the board of the Baker Institute for Public Policy and reportedly has ties to the intelligence community. Gelb's name has been linked with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also a Commissioner with the Hart-Rudman Commission on U.S. on National Security in the 21st Century and its National Security Study Group.
Career
Gelb entered public life as an executive assistant to U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javits from 1966 to 1967. From there he became the director of policy planning and arms control for internation affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense from 1967 to 1969. From 1969 to 1973 he was both a visiting professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Gelb served as assistant secretary of state for political/military affairs for the U.S. State Department from 1977 to 1979. After working as a senior associate for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]] (1980-81) he spent the next 12 years at The New York Times as a columnist, deputy editorial page editor, op-ed page editor, national security correspondent, and diplomatic correspondent.
Affiliations (alpha order)
- Baker Institute for Public Policy – Board member
- Brookings Institution – senior fellow
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – former senior associate and Board of Directors
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Global Kids Advisory Council
- New York Times former foreign editor
Publications
- Leslie H. Gelb and Richard K. Betts, The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked, The Brookings Institution, 1979.
- Leslie H. Gelb The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked, 1980.
- I. M. Destler, Leslie H. Gelb, and Anthony Lake, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy, Simon & Schuster, 1985.
- Leslie Gelb and Seymour Weiss, Will Nuclear Arms Agreements Work?, Greenhaven Press, 1985.
- Leslie H. Gelb, Anglo American Relations, 1945-1949: Toward a Theory of Alliances, Taylor & Francis, 1989.
- Leslie H. Gelb, Intervention and American Foreign Policy, W W Norton, 2002.
