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Mitchell B. Reiss is a leading expert on American foreign policy and internationally recognized for his negotiating skills during the Northern Ireland peace process and the North Korean nuclear crisis. Starting July 1, 2010, Reiss became the twenty-seventh President of Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.
Reiss was formerly Diplomat-in-Residence at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he held appointments in the School of Law and the Government Department. During the past decade he also held a number of leadership positions at the College, including Vice Provost for International Affairs, Dean, and Director of the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies. From 2003 to 2005 he served as Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department, where he provided Secretary Colin L. Powell with independent strategic advice and policy recommendations. In December 2003, he was asked to serve concurrently as the President’s Special Envoy for the Northern Ireland Peace Process with the rank of Ambassador; in January 2005 Secretary Condoleezza Rice asked Reiss to continue in this position, which he did until February 2007. During this period, Northern Ireland registered historic progress toward ending “the Troubles” and realizing the full promise of the Good Friday Agreement. For his efforts, he received the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Award for Public Service.
Prior to William & Mary, Reiss helped manage the start-up and operations of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), a multinational organization designed to deliver $6 billion of energy (500,000 tons of heavy fuel oil per year and two 1,000-megawatt nuclear power stations) to North Korea. He led KEDO’s negotiations with the North Koreans and served as its first General Counsel. Reiss was a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, where he started its nonproliferation and counterproliferation programs. He practiced corporate and banking law at Covington & Burling and served as Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor as a White House Fellow from 1988 to 1989. He was a Consultant to the Office of the Legal Advisor at the State Department, the General Counsel’s Office at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories. He currently serves on a number of boards and advises private sector companies and philanthropic organizations.
Reiss has a law degree from Columbia Law School, a D.Phil. from Oxford University, a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, and a BA from Williams College. He is the author of Without the Bomb and Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Ambitions and has contributed to eighteen other books and published over eighty articles and reviews. He has testified frequently before Congress, appeared on television and radio in the U.S. and overseas, and delivered numerous talks before academic, military, and civilian audiences around the world. He is currently conducting research on how states negotiate with terrorist groups.
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