- Born
- Died
- Birth nameZbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Zbigniew Brzezinski was born on March 28, 1928 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was married to Emilie Benes Brzezinski. He died on May 26, 2017 in Falls Church, Virginia, USA.
- SpouseEmilie Benes Brzezinski(1961 - May 26, 2017) (his death, 3 children)
- Children
- National security advisor to US president Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981.
- His father, a Polish diplomat, was posted to Canada in 1938, thus barely avoiding the outbreak of WWII a year later. The family remained in Canada and later moved to the US.
- Has Ph.D. in political science from Harvard (1953).
- In 1981 awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations and for his contribution to the human rights and national security policies of the United States.
- Received his B.A. (1949) and M.A. (1950) in political science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
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