Background
He is the son of Polish-born former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and the grandson of Polish diplomat Tadeusz Brzeziński. His mother Emilie Benes Brzezinski is the grandniece of former Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš.
He is the son of Polish-born former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and the grandson of Polish diplomat Tadeusz Brzeziński. His mother Emilie Benes Brzezinski is the grandniece of former Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš.
University of Oxford. Dartmouth College; University of Virginia School of Law.
He is also first cousin of author Matthew Brzezinski. Brzezinski graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts in government, earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia Law School, and holds a Doctorate.Phil. in political science from Oxford University. He also earned a Fulbright Scholarship to study the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland.
He was a corporate and securities associate at Hogan & Hartson Limited Liability Partnership in Washington, District of Columbia from 1996-1999.
From 1999-2001, Brzezinski served in the Clinton administration as a director of Russian/Eurasian affairs and director of Southeast European affairs of the National Security Council at the White House. In that capacity, he was White House coordinator for United States. democracy and rule of law assistance programs for the region.
Brzezinski was a foreign policy advisor to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, and was later appointed Ambassador to Sweden by Obama.