Mitchel Wallerstein
| Mitchel Wallerstein | |
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| President of Baruch College | |
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Assumed office 2 August 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Stan Altman |
| Dean of Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs | |
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In office July 2003 – 2010 |
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| Preceded by | John L. Palmer |
| Succeeded by | James Steinberg |
| Personal details | |
| Born | New York City |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Syracuse University Dartmouth College |
Mitchel Wallerstein is an American political scientist, former senior official in the U.S. government and the current President of Baruch College, which is part of the City University of New York. From 2003 to 2010, he served as dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Born in New York City, Wallerstein received his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College in 1971. In 1972, he followed with a Master's degree in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He received a Master's (1976) and PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978.
For the next five years, he worked as an assistant professor at the College of the Holy Cross and MIT. From 1983 to 1993, he worked at the National Academy of Sciences, holding progressively more senior positions, including deputy executive officer of the National Research Council. Also while at the National Research Council, Wallerstein directed a series of highly acclaimed studies on scientific communication, technology transfer and national security.
From 1993 to 1997, he served as the first presidential appointee as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counterproliferation Policy and was simultaneously the Senior Defense Representative for Trade Security Policy. While at the Department of Defense, Wallerstein helped to found and co-chaired NATO's Senior Defense Group on Proliferation. He received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in January 1997, and was given the Bronze Palm to that award in April 1998. During his time in Washington, DC, he also served as an adjunct professor at the Program on Science, Technology and Policy at the George Washington University, the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Wallerstein was named a Distinguished Research Professor at the National Defense University in November 1997.
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