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President, Council on Foreign Relations
Former State Department director of policy planning and lead U.S. official on Afghanistan and Northern Ireland (2001 - 2003), and principal Middle East adviser to President George H.W. Bush (1989 - 1993). Author or editor of eleven books on U.S. foreign policy, including War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars.
U.S. foreign policy; international security; globalization; Asia; Middle East
Alton Frye
Presidential Senior Fellow Emeritus
Frequent consultant to executive and legislative branches; expert on national security strategy and arms control.
National security strategy; arms control; legislative-executive branch relations.
President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Pulitzer Prize-winner, former correspondent for the New York Times, and senior official in State and Defense Departments; expert on U.S. foreign policy and national security. Author of the new book Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue Foreign Policy (HarperCollins, March 2009).
U.S. foreign policy; national security; Russia; Persian Gulf.
Editor, Peter G. Peterson Chair, Foreign Affairs
Editor of Foreign Affairs, the premier journal on international affairs and foreign policy, former editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, and former publisher of the New York Daily News; expert on U.S. foreign policy and media issues.
U.S. foreign policy; media issues; trends in international economics.
Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs
Former National Security Council official in the Clinton administration; expert on national security and terrorism.
International conflict; Middle East, Persian Gulf, and South Asia; terrorism; economic sanctions.
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
Award-winning coauthor of America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy and former director for global issues and multilateral affairs at the National Security Council.
U.S. foreign policy; Congress; domestic politics; news media and public opinion.
Director, Studies Administration
Former corporate lawyer and banker with expertise in international law and conflict prevention.
Corporate finance; corporate law; international law; and conflict prevention
Associate Director, Studies Administration and Junior Staff Professional Development Program
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Former senior director for democracy and human rights, senior director for the Near East, and deputy national security adviser handling Middle East affairs in the George W. Bush administration. Former assistant secretary of state for UN affairs, human rights, and Latin America in the Reagan administration.
U.S. policy in the Middle East, Israel-Palestinian affairs, democracy promotion, human rights policy, U.S. foreign policy.
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Former Washington bureau chief at the Financial Times. Latest book, The Closing of the American Border, examines U.S. visa and border policies in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
U.S. economic competitiveness, U.S. trade policy, visa and immigration policy.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics
Director for external relations for the International Monetary Fund. Former economics and finance reporter for the Washington Post. Currently directing a roundtable series on global economics.
Financial crises management; foreign exchange markets; international economics; IMF and the World Bank; Japan; Argentina.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Journalism professor at New York University. Former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday. Currently working on a project about Hezbollah and the Shiite community in Lebanon.
Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Islamic militancy, Shiite politics.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law
Partner at Arnold & Porter, LLP. Former legal adviser for the U.S. Department of State and National Security Council. Currently directing a roundtable series on international and national security law.
International law and international criminal justice; international humanitarian law and human rights law; international criminal tribunals, including the International Criminal Court; treaty law; international and domestic law applicable to counterterrorism operations, including detention policies; intelligence law and covert action; U.S. national security organization and process; U.S. national security statutes.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Author of Surprise Attack: Lessons for Defense Planning and professor at Columbia University. Commissioner to the National Commission on Terrorism and former staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Current work examines the U.S. national security agenda.
Intelligence and U.S. defense policy; military strategy; political and military intelligence; international conflict; terrorism.
Senior Fellow for International Economics
Author of In Defense of Globalization, special adviser to the UN and the World Trade Organization, and professor of economics at Columbia University. Latest book, Termites in the Trading System, discusses the deleterious effects of preferential trade agreements.
International trade; economic policy reforms; immigration.
Roger Hertog Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Award-winning author of Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle. Former associate professor and Elihu Root chair of military studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. Current work examines U.S. defense policy and strategy.
U.S. national security policy; military strategy and the conduct of war; technology in modern warfare; recent operations in the war on terror.
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
Award-winning author and former editorial editor for The Wall Street Journal. Author of War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today. Currently writing a history of guerrilla warfare.
Defense policy; defense budget; proliferation; nation-building and peacekeeping; democracy and human rights; U.S. grand strategy; national security; military technology; military history; U.S. foreign policy; terrorism and guerilla warfare; terrorism; media.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy
International investment banker, advises on cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Conducts research on business and transatlantic relations.
International business; finance and economics; media and communications; technology and foreign policy.
Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies
Career Foreign Service officer and former ambassador to Nigeria. Political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria during South Africa's first non-racial elections. Currently writing a book on contemporary Nigeria.
Nigeria, South Africa, U.S.policy toward Africa. HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia Studies
Internationally renowned expert on the Chinese legal system and professor at NYU School of Law. Current work examines the role of law in Asian countries.
Legal and business transactions in Asia; international relations of East Asia; international law.
Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Author of the forthcoming book Paradise Beneath Her Feet: Women and Reform in the Middle East (Random House). Recently coauthored Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security. Director of CFR's Women and Foreign Policy program.
Economic development; gender issues in the Middle East and Southwest Asia; foreign aid; microfinance; education reform in the Middle East.
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author of Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey. Directed the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward reform in the Arab world. Currently writing a book on the future of U.S.-Egypt relations.
Politics in the Arab world; U.S.-Middle East policy; Turkish politics; civil-military relations in the Middle East; Arab-Israeli conflict.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy
A corporate executive with extensive experience in high technology and international political economy. Currently directing a roundtable series on technology, innovation, and American primacy.
American economic competitiveness; technological innovation and foreign policy.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics
Former deputy director of the Asia and Pacific department at the International Monetary Fund. Author of the Council Special Report, Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis.
International economics and finance; International Monetary Fund; China.
C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies
Award-winning author of The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China’s Future. Currently writing a new book on China’s rise and its geopolitical and strategic implications.
Chinese domestic and foreign policy; U.S.-China relations; global environmental issues.
Senior Fellow for East, Central, and South Asia
Former deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia, deputy assistant secretary of state for Central Asia, and member of the policy planning staff for East Asia. Author of books on China. Now writing a book on the reemergence of Asia as an integrated strategic space and the global implications of the rise of Asian power.
China, India, Central Asia, Japan, North and South Korea, Russia; energy, Caspian oil and gas; China and India as emerging global powers; economic integration in East, Central, and South Asia; U.S. foreign policy; new global and Asian regional architecture.
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Professor of law at Harvard University. Author of After Jihad, What We Owe Iraq, and Divided by God. Former senior constitutional adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Author of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, released in April 2008.
Relationship between law and religion in both the Western and Middle Eastern context; Middle East politics; North Africa; Islamic constitutional thought.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology
Recipient of the Robert S. Landauer Memorial Lecturer Award for outstanding scientific achievement toward improving the security of radioactive sources. Author of the Council Special Report Nuclear Energy: Balancing Benefits and Risks and director of the Council Special Report China, Space Weapons, and U.S. Security.
Nuclear nonproliferation; nuclear and radiological terrorism; prevention and response; U.S. and international nuclear policies; arms control, climate change, energy policy, and nuclear energy.
Senior Fellow for Global Health
Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of the Council report HIV and National Security: Where are the Links? Presently writing a book examining the global impact of infectious disease.
Global health systems; chronic and infectious diseases; bioterrorism; public health and its effects on foreign policy and national security.
Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations
Award-winning author, former State Department official, and staff member of the National Security Council. Professor of political science and international politics at George Washington University. Latest book is America Between the Wars (with Derek Chollet, PublicAffairs Books, June 2008).
Transatlantic relations; U.S.-Russian relations; NATO; the European Union.
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Public affairs strategic consultant and former vice president for public affairs and policy at Pfizer Inc. Currently leading a global coalition on aging and health to drive public policy changes on international agendas.
Health policy; international organizations; policy advocacy; international economic and trade policy; recent reform efforts in U.S., Europe and internationally on health; international regulatory policies; European affairs.
Senior Fellow for Europe Studies
Professor of international affairs at Georgetown University and former director for European affairs at the National Security Council. Currently writing a book on the international order and how to preserve transatlantic peace.
NATO; European Union; U.S. national security; nationalism; the Balkans.
Fellow for Southeast Asia
Former foreign correspondent and journalist covering Southeast Asia. Current research focuses on reinvigorating U.S. policy toward Southeast Asia, China's strategy toward Southeast Asia, and lessons of Indonesia as a successful Muslim-majority democracy. Author of Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World, released in 2006, and of numerous articles and briefs on Southeast Asia, China, and democratization in the developing world.
Southeast Asia, China; Asian regionalism; public diplomacy; democratization in the developing world.
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Former senior director for strategic planning and institutional reform, National Security Council staff. Author of Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Random House, 2005). Current work focuses on strengthening the nuclear nonproliferation regime.
U.S. national security policy; nuclear nonproliferation; diplomatic history; structure and process of U.S. national security policymaking.
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change
Author of On Nuclear Terrorism, released November 2007. Directed the recent Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on climate change.
Climate change; energy policy; weapons of mass destruction; homeland security; arms control and proliferation; technology and foreign policy; science and technology in the Islamic world.
Senior Fellow for International Business
Economist, historian, and longtime journalist. Author of The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, and many other books and articles.
Finance and investment, financial regulation, environment, trade policy, shipping, and supply chains.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author and journalist specializing in Middle East affairs and Islam. Currently working on a book about the future of Saudi Arabia and its implications for the United States.
Middle East history and politics; U.S. relations with Arab world; history and economy of Saudi Arabia; nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies
Former U.S. ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria and former assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs. Directed the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force that produced the report More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach Toward Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa; economic development; democratization and elections; civil reconstruction; conflict prevention; global governance; United Nations; HIV/AIDS.
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
Columnist and former editorial board member at the Washington Post. Currently writing a book on hedge funds.
Globalization, trade, foreign assistance, hedge funds.
Adjunct Fellow for Russia Studies
Associate director of International Security Studies, Yale University. Author of Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, March 2009).
Russian foreign policy; U.S.-Russian relations; European diplomatic and military history; nationalism and ethnic conflict.
Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia
Former State Department policy planning staff member. Current work focuses on U.S. policy in South Asia, especially Pakistan and India.
South Asia; U.S. foreign policy; international security; international relations theory.
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Award-winning author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World. Author of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, released in October 2007. Author of a blog at The American Interest.
U.S. foreign policy; international political economy; domestic politics; religion and foreign policy.
Fellow for Global Health
Public health specialist with expertise in developing country HIV/AIDS treatment rollouts and health systems. Conducting roundtables on issues pertaining to global health development programs and global health governance.
HIV/AIDS; global health governance; developing country health systems; developing country health policy.
Douglas Dillon Fellow for Latin America Studies
Director of the recent Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward Latin America. Currently authoring a book on Mexico.
Latin America; policy reform; immigration.
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School. Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, former advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, former member of State Department policy planning staff handling Northern Ireland peace process, Iran, Syria, and relations with the Muslim world.
U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy; counterinsurgency; nation-building; the geopolitics of energy; Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan.
Senior Fellow and Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance
Former State Department policy planning staff member. Current work focuses on U.S. policy toward global governance. Author of The Best Laid Plans, released in November 2008.
Multilateral cooperation, international institutions and global governance; United Nations; weak and failing states; foreign assistance and post-conflict reconstruction; transnational threats; U.S. foreign policy; diplomatic history.
Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security Studies
Currently leading study groups on cybersecurity and cyberconflict as well as Asian innovation and technological entrepreneurship. Forthcoming book looks at the technological rise of Asia. Previously the project director for a Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on Chinese military modernization.
Technology and development in China and India; East Asian security; Chinese domestic and foreign policy.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Former foreign policy advisor in the administration of George W. Bush and senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq; previous foreign policy and communications aide in the U.S. Senate. Currently a founding partner of Rosemont Capital and author of Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle.
Middle East and Persian Gulf geopolitics, security, and economics; Israeli-Palestinian relations; Iraq; nation-building; post-conflict stabilization; role of foreign policy issues in domestic U.S. politics; media coverage of war; U.S. public diplomacy.
George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Former ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the secretary of state for policy toward the states of the former Soviet Union. Directed the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force that produced the report Russia’s Wrong Direction: What the United States Can and Should Do.
Russia and the former Soviet Union; Caucasus and Central Asia; U.S. foreign policy.
Senior Fellow for Economic History
Author of the bestselling The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. Adjunct associate professor at New York University's Stern School of Business and syndicated columnist for Bloomberg. Current work includes a development of a new history of the 1960s.
Germany; Russia; history; economics; U.S. tax policy; relative competitiveness.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Award-winning coauthor of The Age of Sacred Terror and The Next Attack. Former director for global issues and senior director for transnational threats at the National Security Council. Current work examines the consequences of the American intervention in Iraq, Muslim/non-Muslim relations, and the role of religion in U.S. foreign policy.
U.S. security policy in the Middle East and South Asia; Middle East politics; Palestinian-Israeli relations; transatlantic approaches to Islamic activism; terrorism and counterterrorism; intelligence reform.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Globalization
Associate dean and professor of international economics at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and former member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Coauthor of the recent Council Special Report, Global FDI Policy.
The economics and politics of globalization, multinational firms and capital markets, immigration, technological innovation, and the causes and consequences of the globalization backlash.
Senior Fellow for Japan Studies
Expert on Japan and Asian international relations. Currently directing the New Regional Security Architecture for Asia program.
Japanese domestic politics and foreign policy; Northeast Asia regional security; international relations of the Asia Pacific.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Korea Studies
Senior associate at the Asia Foundation and Pacific Forum CSIS. Author of China’s Rise and the Two Koreas.
Politics and foreign policy of South Korea and North Korea; U.S.-Korea relations; Northeast Asian security; and U.S.-Asia relations.
General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
Expert on emerging regional and international security challenges. Led the bipartisan Genocide Prevention Task Force's Expert Group on Preventive Diplomacy. Currently focusing on future conflict trends and associated prevention strategies.
U.S. national security policy, conflict prevention strategies, U.S. counterterrorism policy, Northeast Asia security
Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics
Award-winning writer, and editor of the scholarly journal International Finance. His most recent book Money, Markets, and Sovereignty analyzes the historical relationship between money and national sovereignty and its importance in understanding contemporary globalization.
Financial markets; securities trading; international finance.
Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies
Award-winning author of Inside the Cuban Revolution and director of numerous Council-sponsored Task Forces on Latin America. Her latest book Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know was released in June 2009.
Latin America; U.S.-Latin America policy; Anti-Americanism.
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author of The Guardians of the Revolution: Iran's Approach to the World (Oxford University Press, May 2009). Served as senior adviser to the special adviser for the Gulf and Southwest Asia at the U.S. Department of State.
Iran; Persian Gulf and U.S. foreign policy.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy
Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Currently directing a roundtable series on the rule of law and U.S. foreign policy.
Domestic and international legal aspects of counterterrorism.
Fellow for Conflict Prevention
Political scientist with expertise in national security issues. Currently researching and writing on enhancing the capacity for preventive action within the U.S. government and international institutions. He has a book forthcoming on the U.S. limited uses of force since the end of the Cold War.
Conflict prevention; U.S. national security policy; military planning and operations; nuclear weapons policy.
Military Fellow, U.S. Air Force
Served as Commander, 97th Air Mobility Wing, Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Completed various operational and staff assignments in the United States and Europe. Command pilot with 4,500 flying hours in over 30 different aircraft types.
National security and defense.
Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow
Former foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, covering India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan for almost five years. Studying detention issues and writing about her experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan; Afghan and Pakistan government policy; NATO in Afghanistan; Pakistan-India relations; Kashmir.
Visiting Fellow for Ocean Governance
Former director of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s Institute for Leadership. Adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia University working on issues related to the foreign policy implications of the melting Arctic, homeland security, and the future of shipping. Currently directing a roundtable series on strategic ocean governance.
The Arctic; ocean policy; homeland security; U.S. foreign policy; shipping.
Captain Eustaquio Castro-Mendoza, USN
Military Fellow, U.S. Navy
Mostly recently director of analysis in the Security and Intelligence Directorate. Previously vice director for intelligence at the U.S. Southern Command and chief of staff for intelligence for Commander Naval Air Forces.
Tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence; U.S. national security strategy; U.S. maritime strategy; Latin America; operations in the war on terror.
Colonel Bjarne M. Iverson, USA
Military Fellow, U.S. Army
Engineer and Middle East foreign area officer. Most recent tour as executive officer to General David H. Petraeus during his command of Multi-National Force - Iraq and U.S. Central Command.
Middle East; military strategy and conduct of war in Iraq; counterinsurgency and counter-terrorist operations in Afghanistan, Iraq; Arabic language.
International Affairs Fellow in Residence
Former counterterrorism analyst for the New York Police Department and policy adviser for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Working on a forthcoming book on the Middle East.
Iraq, Egypt, Kurdish issues, Middle East politics and political reform; terrorism and counterterrorism, international terrorism and security, insurgency and counterinsurgency.
International Affairs Fellow in Residence
Former director for UN Affairs at the National Security Council and Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State. Currently researching multilateral planning for peace-building operations.
Africa, Central and Eastern Europe; United Nations; democracy, human rights, international organizations; peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations.
International Affairs Fellow in Residence
Former National Security Council official in the Bush and Obama administrations, focusing on U.S. policy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Currently working on a book focused on U.S. policy in Iraq and the potential for a long-term strategic relationship between Iraq and the United States.
U.S. national security law and policy; military strategy and the conduct of war; complex international negotiations; constitutional law and constitutional theory.
Military Fellow, U.S. Marine Corps
CH-46E pilot with numerous deployments to the Mediterranean and Middle East, participating in operations in Iraq, Somalia, Albania, Congo, Zaire, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Turkey. Most recent tour at U.S. Special Operations Command.
U.S. national security policy; military strategy and the conduct of war; technology in modern warfare; recent operations in the war on terror; special operations.
International Affairs Fellow in Residence
Former policy advisor on counterterrorism issues at both the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Currently researching long-term approaches to mitigating terrorist threats, including detainee rehabilitation efforts.
U.S. national security policy; terrorism and counterterrorism policy; terrorist financing, U.S. detention policy, Arabian Peninsula issues.
International Affairs Fellow in Residence
Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. State Department, currently an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. researching Iraq and its refugees and displaced persons. She has served tours with the State Department overseas in Macedonia, Guinea, and Iraq, as well as the United Nations, Office of Multilateral Trade Affairs (WTO accessions), and the Office of Analysis for Europe (INR).
U.S. foreign policy; Iraq and the Middle East; Shia/Sunni issues; Islam and U.S. foreign policy; refugees and internally displaced persons; post-traumatic stress disorder and U.S. foreign policy
Cyrus Vance Fellow for Diplomatic Studies
Former U.S. Consul General and Chief of Mission in Jerusalem from 2005 to 2009. In over twenty five years with the Department of State, he served in the Middle East and Europe and has been an active participant in Middle East peace efforts dating back to the 1991 Madrid Conference.
U.S. policy in the Middle East; Israeli and Palestinian affairs; U.S. foreign policy; international economics policy.
Vice President, Washington Program
Former deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs and vice president for external relations at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
U.S. foreign policy; Congress and foreign policy; media and public opinion; international education.
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