MIT World Speakers

Kenneth Pollack PhD '96

Kenneth Pollack previously served as Director for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations; as the Director for Persian Gulf Affairs, National Security Council; the Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security Council; Senior Research Professor, National Defense University; and an Iran-Iraq Military Analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Pollack received his B.A. from Yale University in 1988 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1996.