Robert L. Gallucci was appointed dean of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in 1996. He had just completed twenty-one years of government service, serving since August 1994 with the Department of State as ambassador at large. In 1998 he became the State Department’s special envoy to deal with the threat posed by the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. In 1991 he was appointed deputy executive chairman of the UN Special Commission overseeing the disarmament of Iraq.

One year later, he became senior coordinator for non-proliferation and nuclear safety initiatives in the former Soviet Union. Later in 1992 Dr. Gallucci was confirmed as the assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs. He has 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, with Joel S. Wit and Daniel Poneman.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a master’s and doctorate in politics from Brandeis University. Before joining the State Department, he taught at Swarthmore College, The Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and Georgetown University.