` April 20, 1998 Contact: Bob Brickhouse (804) 924-6856 INTERNATIONAL POLICY EXPERT PHILIP ZELIKOW NAMED TO HEAD U.VA.'S MILLER CENTER OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Philip Zelikow, a Harvard University government and history scholar and former National Security Council staff member, has been chosen by the governing council of the White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia to become the center's new director, effective July 1. Zelikow's appointment, on the nomination of U.Va. President John T. Casteen III, is pending approval of U.Va.'s Board of Visitors. Zelikow, associate professor of public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, will succeed Kenneth W. JJctor of the J@er Center, one of the country's foremost institutes for the study of the American presidency and governance. Thompson, the noted political scientist who has headed the center since 1978 and built many of its programs, announced last year that he would retire as director and continue to teach in the government and foreign affairs department. Zelikow also will teach at U.Va. with appointments in the history and government departments and will hold the White Burkett Miller Professorship at the Miller Center. "Philip Zelikow's extensive experience in government and diplomacy and the impressive range of his scholarship make him an outstanding match to carry on the important work of the Miller Center," said former Virginia Gov. Linwood Holton, chair of the center's council, in announcing the transition in leadership. "Everyone who cares about understanding and enhancing American governance owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to Ken Thompson for his extraordinary efforts in making the center such a valuable public asset." Zelikow, an authority on international policy, has taught at Harvard since 1991. From 1989 to 1991 he was director for European security affairs at the National Security Council, where he advised President Bush and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft on European issues, MORE 2 including the unification of Germany and the multinational coalition against Iraq. He previously held various staff positions at the state department, including work on negotiations over armed forces in Europe. The author of numerous articles and case studies, Zelikow is co-author or editor of several books about U.S. international policy and about European affairs. His books include "The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis" (Harvard, 1997) and "Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft" (Harvard, 1995), which was named a book of distinction on American diplomacy by the American Academy of Diplomacy. Zelikow holds a doctorate from Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, as well as a law degree from the University of Houston. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the state department's advisory committee on historical diplomatic documentation. He is also deputy director of the Aspen Strategy Group, a program of the Aspen Institute, and director of the Universities Study Group on Grand Terrorism, sponsored by Harvard's Projects on Visions of Governance. In his two decades at the Miller Center, which was founded in 1975, Thompson has helped shape it as a leading nonpartisan research center on U.S. government, world affairs and the presidency. Under his leadership the center's resident and visiting scholars have produced more than 200 studies, books and oral histories about 20th century presidential administrations. The center has also sponsored eight national commissions, many of whose recommendations have been adopted, on urgent problems of governance, including the presidential nominating process, presidential disability and the 25th Amendment, choosing and using vice presidents, and selection of federal judges. The center is also well known for its ongoing public dialogues through frequent forums featuring present and former government officials, scholars and journalists. Before coming to the Miller Center, Thompson served for 13 years as vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of numerous influential writings about the presidency and international relations. The White Burkett Miller Center was established by a gift from Burkett Miller, a U.Va. law school alumnus and Chattanooga, Tenn., philanthropist, in honor of his father. ### Television reporters should contact our TV News Office at (804) 924-7550. U.Va. news online: http//www.virginia.edu/topnews