Mitchell Reiss
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell appointed Dr. Mitchell B.
Reiss as Director for Policy Planning on July 21, 2003. In
addition to his responsibilities as Director for Policy
Planning, Dr. Reiss serves as the President's Special Envoy
for Northern Ireland, with the rank of Ambassador,
responsible for leading the U.S. role in the Northern
Ireland Peace Process. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Reiss was Dean of
International Affairs, Director of the Reves Center for
International Studies, Professor of Law at the
Marshall-Wythe Law School, and Professor of Government in
the Department of Government at the College of William and
Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Prior to his service at William and Mary, Dr. Reiss helped
establish KEDO (the Korean Peninsula Energy Development
Organization), a multinational organization created to
address weapons proliferation concerns in North Korea. His
responsibilities there included serving as Chief Negotiator
and as General Counsel. His government service includes
positions in the National Security Council at the White
House, and as a Consultant to the U.S. Arms Control &
Disarmament Agency, the State Department, the Congressional
Research Service, the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos
National Laboratories. He has also served on the Council on
Foreign Relations; Ford Foundation; and the Cambridge
Institute for Applied Research as well as the Board of
Directors for the Lawyers Alliance for World Security. Dr.
Reiss has also been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars and worked as an attorney
at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. Dr. Reiss has testified before Congress on U.S. foreign
policy issues, appeared on national and international radio
and television programs, and delivered talks before
academic, military, and civilian audiences in East Asia, the
former Soviet Union, Europe, South Asia, and the United States. Dr. Reiss is the author of Bridled Ambition: Why Countries
Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities and Without the Bomb:
The Politics of Nuclear Non-proliferation. He is also
co-editor and author of Nuclear Proliferation after the Cold
War. Published articles in The Washington Quarterly, Foreign
Affairs, Arms Control Today, The Wilson Quarterly, and the
Congressional Record. He has contributed to nine other
volumes and written over 50 articles on international
security and arms control issues. Dr. Reiss holds a B.A. from Williams College, an M.A.L.D.
from Tufts University, a Ph.D. from Oxford University, and a
J.D. from Columbia University.
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Series
Books:Bridled Ambition, April 1995
Woodrow Wilson Center Special Studies
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