About Zygmunt Nagorski

Zygmunt Nagorski is currently President of the Center for International Leadership in Washington, D.C. The Center, founded in 1986, specializes in custom made seminars for American and multinational corporations focusing on corporate cultures and dealing specifically with leadership development based on corporate as well as individual ethical value systems.

Educated in Poland (University of Cracow Law School) and France, Zygmunt Nagorski spent seven years in uniform. After seeing action in Poland in 1939 and living briefly under German occupation, he escaped to France and enlisted in the Polish Army under French command. After the French collapse, he found his way to England and served there under British Command, ending as a paratrooper. During the last stages of the war, he was a war correspondent in Germany, writing for British and Polish publications.

Together with his wife and two small children, he emigrated to America in 1948 where he started his journalistic career as a copy editor of the Chattanooga Times. Later, his writings appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Boston Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Three years after obtaining American citizenship in 1956, Zygmunt Nagorski entered government service, joining the U. S. Information Agency. After passing the Foreign Service examination, he was appointed Information Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. His subsequent assignments sent him to Seoul, S. Korea and Paris, France. He resigned from the government in 1966 to join the Foreign Policy Association in New York as Special Assistant to the President, followed by a decade as Program Director at the Council on Foreign Relations and five years as Vice President and Director of the Executive Seminars at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.

He is the author of two books: Armed Unemployment, a novel published in Scotland, and The Psychology of East-West Trade, published in New York. He is also the co-author and editor of the compendium U.S.-Japanese Economic Relations, also published in New York. During his tenure of office at the Council on Foreign Relations, he co-founded with another member of the Council's staff, the Mid-Atlantic Club of New York City, a limited membership group focusing on the nature and evolution of Trans-Atlantic relationships.

Currently, he lives and works with his wife, Marie, in Washington, D.C.