- He received a bachelor's in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin. He attended Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where he received a master's and a doctorate.
- He worked as a monitor of developing nuclear energy technology at the International Atomic Energy Agency. After serving as U.N. chief weapons inspector, he spent several years as a vice president of Science Applications International. He later was a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a private research group, and taught at several universities.
- He was a weapons-proliferation expert who led a CIA-run operation in 2003 that concluded that former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein had built no weapons of mass destruction, undermining the chief justification for the US-led invasion earlier that year.
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