Gary G. Sick (Columbia University)

Submitted: Wed, 10 May 1995 12:26:00 -0400 (EDT)


Gary G. Sick
Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor of
International Affairs;
Executive Director, Gulf/2000 Project
395 Riverside Drive, Apt. 10B
New York, N.Y.  10025
USA

Phones: 212-222-9614 (Home/office)
        212-854-2124 (Columbia University office)
FAX:    212-222-9318
Email:  ggs2@columbia.edu

    Gary Sick served on the National Security Council staff
under Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan. He was the principal
White House aide for Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the
hostage crisis and is the author of All Fall Down: America's
Tragic Encounter With Iran (Random House, 1985) and October
Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald
Reagan (Random House/Times Books, 1992). Mr. Sick is a captain
(ret.) in the U.S. Navy, with service in the Persian Gulf, North
Africa and the Mediterranean. He was the deputy director for
International Affairs at the Ford Foundation from 1982 to 1987,
where he was responsible for programs relating to U.S. foreign
policy. Mr. Sick has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia
University, where he is Senior Research Scholar and adjunct
professor of international affairs. He is a member of the board
of Human Rights Watch in New York and chairman of the advisory
committee of Human Rights Watch/Middle East. He is the executive
director of Gulf/2000, an international research project on
political, economic and security developments in the Persian
Gulf, being conducted at Columbia University in 1994-95 on behalf
of the W. Alton Jones and Rockefeller Foundations.