Leslie H. Gelb

Leslie H. Gelb was an American government official, journalist, and foreign policy expert who served as president of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993 to 2003. He directed the Pentagon Papers project at the Defense Department, served as Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter administration, and was a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and columnist for The New York Times. He authored several books on foreign policy including Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy. He died on August 31, 2019 at the age of 82.