Dr. Harvey Sicherman was the President and Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Foreign Policy Research Institute

The Foreign Policy Research Institute is an American neoconservative think tank based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is "devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S...

 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A renowned thinker, his interests lay in the analysis of U.S. foreign policy and national security, as well as in the areas of Western Europe, the Middle East, and International Economics. Born in Scranton in 1945, Sicherman died on December 25, 2010.

Education

In 1966, Sicherman earned a B.A. in History from the University of Scranton and completed his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1971 at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the Salvatori Fellowship.

Career

Sicherman served as the Associate Director for Research at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) from 1978 through 1980. He then served as Special Assistant to the then Secretary of State, Alexander Haig

Alexander Haig

Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. was a United States Army general who served as the United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford...

, from 1981 to 1982. Following this, from 1982 to 1987, Sicherman was a consultant for the Secretary of the Navy, John F. Lehman, Jr. and in 1988, he was a consultant for Secretary of State George Schultz. From 1991 to 1992, Sicherman was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of Secretary of State James A. Baker, III.