Amb. Robert L. Gallucci is a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. From 2015 to 2016 he was Director of the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, and from 2009 to 2014 he was President of the MacArthur Foundation.

During the previous 13 years, Dr. Gallucci was the Dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. This followed more than 20 years of service with the U.S. government and international organizations where he held positions as Special Envoy dealing with the threat of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction, Ambassador at Large, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, Deputy Executive Chairman of the UN Commission charged with the disarmament of Iraq after the first Gulf War, and Deputy Director General of the Multinational Force and Observers -- the Sinai peacekeeping force.

Dr. Gallucci holds a B.A. from Stony Brook University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University. He is the author of Neither Peace Nor Honor: The Politics of American Military Policy in Viet-Nam and co-author of Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis.