| Helmut Sonnenfeldt Helmut Sonnenfeldt has been a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. since 1978. Between March 1977 and August 1978, he was a visiting scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. Prior to these appointments, Mr. Sonnenfeldt served in the U.S. Government, from 1952-1977 and, before that, in 1947. Between 1952 and 1969, Mr. Sonnenfeldt was a research and intelligence specialist in the Department of State dealing with Soviet, East European and international communist affairs. During the mid and late sixties, he headed the Office of Research and Analysis for the USSR and Eastern Europe in the Department of State. For approximately one year, in 1960-61, he served as a policy officer in the U.S. Disarmament Agency, predecessor of ACDA. From 1969 to 1974, Mr. Sonnenfeldt was assigned to the National Security Council as a senior staff member dealing with U,S.-European and East-West relations. Subsequently, he served as Counselor of the Department of State, from 1974 to 1977, with similar substantive responsibilities. He retired as a Career Minister from the State Department and Foreign Service in 1977, but continued as a consultant to that department until 2001. In the private sector, Mr. Sonnenfeldt served on corporate boards and as a consultant on international affairs to several corporations and financial institutions. He has lectured in this field at academic and other professional organizations and participates in US and international study groups dealing with security and other regional and global public policy issues. Mr. Sonnenfeldt has published articles on various foreign policy matters in Foreign Affairs, Washington Quarterly, the NATO Review, and numerous newspapers and other publications in the U.S., Europe, Japan and elsewhere. An Adelphi Paper, entitled “Soviet Perspectives on Security”, written with William G. Hyland, was published in 1979. Mr. Sonnenfeldt also appears as a commentator on international issues on U.S. and foreign radio and television programs. Mr. Sonnenfeldt in recent years has taken considerable interest in Asian-Pacific affairs. He has chaired a study on East Asian Security problems for the Atlantic Council of the United States, and attended numerous conferences on this subject in Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan as well as in the U.S. Mr. Sonnenfeldt is a trustee emeritus of the Johns Hopkins University and has also been a member of the Advisory Council of that institution’s School of Advanced International Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York), and other professional associations. He is a director of the Atlantic Council of the U.S., the World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C. and the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies. He has been on the Board of Visitors of the National Defense University and was a Bates Scholar at the Naval War College. He served on the Council and Executive Committee of the International Institute of Strategic Studies (London) between 1980 and 1998. He was a member of the International Advisory Council of the Creditanstalt of Vienna, Austria, and is foreign editor of the International Economy. He is on the editorial boards of Politique Internationale (Paris) and Foreign Policy (Washington). He has also been a member of the “Executive Panel” of the Chief of Naval Operations and, since 2001, of the Defense Policy Board. At the Brookings Institution, Mr. Sonnenfeldt works with staff members on research projects in international affairs. Mr. Sonnenfeldt served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific and Europe from 1945-46. He was born in Germany and received his primary and secondary education in that country and England. He attended Manchester University and, Johns Hopkins University. He has AB and MA degrees from the latter. Mr. Sonnenfeldt is married and has three children. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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