Speakers
Robert L. Gallucci
President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Robert L. Gallucci became president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 2009. Previously, he served for 13 years as dean of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He spent 21 years in government service, serving since 1994 with the Department of State as Ambassador at Large and from 1998 to 2001 as special envoy to deal with the threat posed by ballistic missile and WMD proliferation. Before joining the State Department, Mr. Gallucci taught at Swarthmore College, Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies, and Georgetown University. He has received fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, and the Brookings Institution. He has authored or co-authored a number of publications on political-military issues, including Neither Peace Nor Honor: The Politics of American Military Policy in Vietnam and Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis, which won the 2005 Douglas Dillon Award from the American Academy of Diplomacy. Mr. Gallucci received the Department of the Army’s Outstanding Civilian Service Award in 1991, the Pi Sigma Alpha Award from the National Capital Area Political Science Association in 2000, and an honorary doctorate from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2002. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Stony Brook, followed by a master’s and doctorate in politics from Brandeis University.
