Brewster Denny

Brewster Denny
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1959

Areas of Specialization:
American Foreign Policy

Academically, Brewster Denny is an historian. He was the founder and first Dean of Evans School (1962-1980) in addition to teaching and has headed the Marine Affairs effort (1972-1979) and was the head of the Foreign Affairs professional program from 1967-1990. His public service includes: naval service in WWII and the Korean War period, eight years as a Supervisory Intelligence Research Analyst assessing Soviet special weapons capabilities and intentions, member of the Professional Staff of the US Senate Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery, an advisor in the national security transition between the Eisenhower and the Kennedy Administrations, United States Representative to the General Assembly of the UN, and representative of the US National Academy of Sciences to help on science policy in Thailand, Korea, the Philippines and Jordan. Since 1974 he has been a Trustee of the Twentieth Century Fund (now called The Century Foundation) and from 1986-1994 was the Chairman of the Board. In that role he has worked on a number of the Fund’s research programs and assisted in the design of projects and the review of manuscripts especially on foreign policy, arms control, intelligence, post war organization of Europe, and US Russian relations after the Cold War. He speaks, reads and writes Russian and has visited Russia twice and has served as an advisor to some of the programs there. He is active in a number of local public service activities including as chair of the Children’s Budget Coalition of the Children’s Alliance.

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