Professor Walter Reich is an American professor of psychiatry and writer. He was the 2003 recipient of the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. In the past, Reich held the roles of director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, ensuring its establishment as an educational institute with serious scholarship; a resident in psychiatry, working at the National Institute of Mental Health, and was co-chair of the Committee of Concerned Scientists. As of 2015, he held the positions of: Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior at the George Washington University; senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; a lecturer in psychiatry at Yale University; and a professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He was a fellow of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Professor Reich is also on the Executive Committee of the International Academic Board of Advisors for ISGAP, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy.