Robert D. Blackwill is the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Blackwill served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for strategic planning under President George W. Bush, presidential envoy to Iraq, and U.S. ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003. He is the recipient of the German government’s Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit for his work in the White House on German Unification.
