Zalmay Khalilzad
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Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad (born March 22, 1951) is an Afghan-American diplomat who has served as the State Department's Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation.
He served as a consultant at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and as the president of Gryphon Partners and Khalilzad Associates, a multinational business consultancy company headquartered in Washington, D.C. President George W. Bush and briefly President Barack Obama were among the United States Ambassadors to the United Nations under his leadership.
Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005, and Ambassador to Iraq from 2005 to 2007.
Khalilzad was nominated for Secretary of State in the Trump administration in 2017.
Early life and education
Khalilzad was born in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, and he grew up in Kabul, the country's capital. He is an ethnic Pashtun from the Noorzai tribe. Khalilzad started his education at Kabul's public Ghazi Lycée Academy.
He first spent time in the United States as a high school exchange student with AFS Intercultural Programs in Ceres, California. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Beirut's American University. Khalilzad earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago, where he worked closely with Albert Wohlstetter, a respected nuclear deterrence thinker and strategist. Khalilzad was provided with contacts within the government and RAND by Wohlstetter. Khalilzad has written at least 28 papers to RAND Corporation.
Personal life
Khalilzad is an ethnic Pashtun. Cheryl Benard, author and political analyst, is Khalilzad's wife. They met in 1972 while attending the American University of Beirut. They have two children.
Early career
Khalilzad served as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs from 1979 to 1989. During that time, he worked closely with Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Carter administration's chief architect of Operation Cyclone, to help the Afghan mujahideen, who had defigged the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.
Khalilzad accepted a one-year Council on Foreign Relations fellowship in 1984 to join the US State Department, where he served as an advisor to the Near East and South Asia Bureau, headed by Richard W. Murphy.
Khalilzad served in the Reagan administration from 1985 to 1989, as a senior State Department official, advising on the Soviet–Afghan War after the Soviet invasion. At the time, he was a member of the Policy Planning Staff and the State Department's Special Advisor on Afghanistan, and the Undersecretary of State Michael H. Armacost. He initiated and led the international effort to promote the merits of a mujahideen-led Afghanistan rebelising the Soviet occupation. Khalilzad served in the US Defense Department from 1990 to 1992 as the Undersecretary for Strategic Planning under President George H. Bush.
Khalilzad was the RAND Corporation's Chief Strategy, Doctrine, and Force Structure between 1993 and 2000. He was instrumental in the establishment of RAND's Middle Eastern Studies Center as well as "Strategic Appraisal," a RAND periodical. In addition, he wrote several influential monographs, including "The United States and a Rising China" and "From Containment to Global Leadership." The Cold War and the United States, 1945." He spent a brief time at RAND doing analysis for a controversial 1400 km (890 mi) trans-Afghanistan gas pipeline project, which would have spanned Afghanistan to Pakistan and then moved to Pakistan.
Khalilzad has written several articles on the value of US global leadership in the mid-1990s. The specifics of the conflict he imagined if a decrease in American power sparked have made his writings extremely popular in the competitive high school and college policy debate, particularly his essay relating the loss of US hegemony to global instability. Khalilzad, a signatory to the Project for the New American Century's letter sent by members of the Project for the New American Century to President Bill Clinton on January 26, 1998. It requested that Clinton assist "removing Saddam Hussein and his troops from office" by using "a complete range of diplomatic, political, and military efforts."