Richard Ullman (1933-2014) was a scholar of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Ullman attended Harvard University for his undergraduate degree. He graduated from Harvard in 1955 and went on to earn his doctorate from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he was mentored by the historian and diplomat George Kennan. Ullman's thesis, Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1971, became the basis for a three-volume series that was his first major academic publication.

After first teaching at Harvard, Ullman became a faculty member at Princeton University in 1965, a position he would hold for over four decades. He served as acting dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1969 and as associate dean from 1968 to 1971. Ullman also spent some of his early career in the federal government, working for the National Security Council in 1967 and for the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1967 to 1968.

Ullman worked at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) from 1973 to 1979. During this time, he served as director of the Studies Department and was involved with the 1980s Project in several capacities, serving as director of the Project, chairman of the Coordinating Group, and as a senior fellow with the Project. In addition to his work at the CFR, Ullman was a member of The New York Times editorial board from 1977 to 1978 and the editor of Foreign Policy from 1978 to 1980.

Ullman worked for the Department of State from 1999 to 2000, where one of his main duties was serving as director of the Kosovo History Project. He became an emeritus professor at Princeton in 2002. Over his lifetime, Ullman authored hundreds of papers and articles on foreign policy.

Richard Ullman died on March 11, 2014 at age 80.