Paul Wolfowitz Fast Facts

Birth place: New York, New York

Birth name: Paul Dundes Wolfowitz

Father: Jacob Wolfowitz, a statistician and professor of mathematics

Mother: Lillian (Dundes) Wolfowitz

July 2, 2007 Joins American Enterprise Institute, a think tank, as a visiting scholar.

January 2008-September 2009 – Chairman of the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board, a panel on arms control and disarmament.

2008-present – Chairman of the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council.

March 17, 2013 – In a Sunday Times interview, Wolfowitz says that he was not the main architect of the Iraq war. He has been referred to an an architect of the Iraq war or Iraq policy in Congressional hearings and in the press as early as 2002. In the interview, he also concedes that there “should have been Iraqi leadership from the beginning.”

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