President
U.S. Institute of Peace
The Honorable Richard H. Solomon has been President of the United States Institute of Peace since 1993. Solomon has served as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, Director of Policy Planning at the State Department, and as a senior staff member on the National Security Council. Before his public service, he served as head of the Social Science Department at the RAND Corporation and professor of political science at the University of Michigan. In 2005, he received the American Political Science Association's Hubert H. Humphrey career award for "notable public service by a political scientist."
