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Professor John M. DEUTCH
Institute Professor, MIT
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Prof. John M. Deutch
Institute Professor
MIT
Department of Chemistry
Bldg. 6-208
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Tel: +1 617 2531479
Fax: +1 617 2585700
E-mail: jmd@mit.edu
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John Deutch is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. Mr. Deutch has been a member of the MIT faculty since
1970, and has served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean
of Science and Provost. Mr. Deutch has published over 140 technical
publications in physical chemistry, as well as numerous publications
on technology, energy, international security, and public policy issues.
John Deutch has served in significant government and academic posts
throughout his career. In May 1995, he was sworn in as Director of Central
Intelligence following a unanimous vote in the Senate, and served as
DCI until December 1996. In this position, he was head of the Intelligence
Community (all foreign intelligence agencies of the United States) and
directed the Central Intelligence Agency. From March 1994 to May 1995,
he served as the Deputy Secretary of Defense. From March 1993 to March
1994, Dr. Deutch served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions
and Technology.
From 1977 to 1980, John Deutch served in a number of positions for
the U.S. Department of Energy: as Director of Energy Research, Acting
Assistant Secretary for Energy Technology, and Undersecretary of the
Department.
In addition John Deutch has served on many commissions during several
presidential administrations. He has served on the President's Nuclear
Safety Oversight Committee (1980-81); the President's Commission on
Strategic Forces (1983); the White House Science Council (1985-89);
the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (1997-2001),
the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (1990-93); the President'
Commission on Aviation Safety and Security (1996); the Commission on
Reducing and Protecting Government Secrecy (1996); and as Chairman of
the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government
to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (1998-99).
John Deutch has received fellowships and honors from the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences (1978) and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Research
Fellow 1967-69), and John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (Memorial Fellow
1974-1975). Public Service Medals have been awarded him from the Department
of Energy (1980), the Department of State (1980), the Department of
Defense (1994 and 1995), the Department of the Army (1995), the Department
of the Navy (1995), the Department of the Air Force (1995), the Coast
Guard (1995), the Central Intelligence Distinguished Intelligence Medal
(1996) and the Intelligence Community Distinguished Intelligence Medal
(1996). He received the Greater Boston Federal Executive Board's Speaker
Thomas P. O'Neill Award for exemplary public service in 2002.
John Deutch earned a B.A. in history and economics from Amherst College,
and both the B.S. in chemical engineering and Ph.D. in physical chemistry
from M.I.T. He holds honorary degrees from Amherst College, University
of Lowell, and Northeastern University. He serves as director for the
following publicly held companies: Citigroup, Cummins, Raytheon and
Schlumberger Ltd. He is a director or trustee of The Council on Foreign
Relations, Resources for the Future, the Urban Institute, and a Overseer
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. -- 01/26/04
