Garrick Utley

Garrick Utley is president of the Neil D. Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce of the State University of New York. For forty years Mr. Utley was a broadcast journalist on NBC, ABC,CNN, and public radio and television; he focused on international affairs and reported from more than seventy-five countries. Utley has received several journalistic honors, including the Oversea Press Club's Edward R. Murrow award. He served on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, is chairman of the American Council on Germany, a director of Public Radio International, and a trustee of Carleton College.

Utley was born in Chicago, the son of the late Clifton Utley, an NBC News Chicago commentator, and Frayn Utley, a former NBC reporter. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Carleton College in Minnesota. After serving in the U.S. Army, he spent a year studying Eastern European affairs at the Free University of West Berlin.