Dr. Gary Sick
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Released 21 March 2004
Dr. Gary Sick
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Dr. 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 two books on U.S.-Iranian relations.
A retired captain in the U.S. Navy, with service in the Persian Gulf, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, Dr. Sick holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, where he is Senior Research Scholar, adjunct professor of international affairs, and former director of the Middle East Institute (2000 to 2003). 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.
Dr. Sick 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 with support from the Ford, W. Alton Jones, MacArthur, and ExxonMobil Foundations, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation. He is a member of the board of Human Rights Watch in New York and co-chairman of the advisory committee of Human Rights Watch/Middle East.