University Counsel and Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs
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| Nicholas Rostow |
Nicholas Rostow was appointed as University Counsel and Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs by the SUNY Board of Trustees, March 13, 2006. In this capacity, Mr. Rostow is the legal adviser to the University. In addition, Rostow was appointed a tenured full professor in the University. He also is a University Fellow at SUNY's Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce.
Mr. Rostow joined the SUNY family as Senior Counsel at the Research Foundation, a non–profit corporation that supports research at the State University of New York. Mr. Rostow came to SUNY after having served in senior Federal and State government positions and holding academic posts as well. From 2001–05, Mr. Rostow served as General Counsel and Senior Policy Adviser to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. His other Federal government positions included Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council under National Security Advisers Colin L. Powell and Brent Scowcroft, Counsel and Deputy Staff Director of the House Select Committee on Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China (the Cox Committee), 1998–99, and Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 1999–2000.
Mr. Rostow held the Charles H. Stockton Chair in International Law at the U.S. Naval War College in 2001. He has also taught at the University of Tulsa College of Law and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. He earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale in 1972, and his Ph.D. in History, 1979, and J.D. also from Yale in 1982. His publications are in the fields of diplomatic history, international law, and issues of U.S. national security and foreign policy.
Mr. Rostow, his wife, Heyden White Rostow, and their two children reside in New York City.