Ambassador

Robert L. Hutchings

Ambassador Robert Hutchings was appointed Chairman of the National Intelligence Council in December 2002. In his previous assignment, he served as Assistant Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he also taught international politics.

Before moving to Princeton in 1997, Ambassador Hutchings was Fellow and Director of International Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. His combined academic and diplomatic career has included service as Director for European Affairs with the National Security Council, 1989-92, and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State in 1992 and 1993, with the rank of Ambassador. He also served two tours in the NIC—as Director of its Analytic Group and earlier as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Europe.

Ambassador Hutchings formerly served as Deputy Director of Radio Free Europe and on the faculty of the University of Virginia and has held adjunct appointments at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. His most recent books are At the End of the American Century (1998) and American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War (1997), which was published in a German language edition as Als der Kalte Krieg zu Ende War (1999).

Ambassador Hutchings is a director of the Atlantic Council of the United States and of the Foundation for a Civil Society, serves on the editorial board of the journal International Politics, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1998, the President of Poland awarded him the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his contributions to Polish freedom.

A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, he holds an M.A. from the College of William and Mary and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.