Jack Matlock (Co-Chair) is former George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has a distinguished career in the American foreign service, serving as ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991, special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for European and Soviet Affairs on the National Security Council staff from 1983 to 1986, and ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1981 to 1983. Before his appointment as ambassador to Moscow, Professor Matlock served at the American Embassy in the Soviet Union as deputy chief of mission (1974 to 1978) and chargé d'affairs ad interim (1981). He is the author of numerous articles and books on Russian literature and history and United States-Russian relations, including Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1995). His latest book entitled Reagan and Gorbatchev: How the Cold War Ended will be released by Random House in July 2004. Professor Matlock received a B.A. from Duke University, North Carolina, and an M.A. from the Russian Institute at Columbia University, New York. He served on the Faculty of Salzburg Seminar Session 315, American Foreign Policy: President Clinton and Beyond, 1994.