Richard N. Haass

Richard N. Haass is President of the Council on Foreign
Relations, the preeminent independent foreign policy
organization in the world. Previously, he was Director of
Policy Planning for the State Department and a principal
adviser to Colin Powell. Haass, who held the rank of
ambassador, also served as U.S. coordinator for the future
of Afghanistan and as the lead U.S. official for Northern
Ireland's peace process. Earlier, he was the senior Middle
East advisor to President George H. W. Bush, and served in
Ronald Reagan's State Department and Jimmy Carter's
Pentagon. He now lives with his wife and children in New
York City.