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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 ten books on U.S. foreign policy, including The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course.
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
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.
U.S. foreign policy; national security; Russia; Persian Gulf.
Special Assistant to the Senior Vice President, Treasurer, and Chief Operating Officer
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.
Executive Editor, CFR.org
International news coverage, free expression, Internet policy abroad, U.S. media strategy, and public diplomacy.
Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
Former senior director for nonproliferation and export controls at the National Security Council and editor of three International Institute for Strategic Studies "dossiers" on weapons programs in Iraq, North Korea, and Iran.
Nuclear proliferation and arms control, especially in the Middle East and Asia
Deputy Director of Studies Administration
Former corporate lawyer and banker with expertise in international law and conflict prevention.
Corporate finance; corporate law; international law; and conflict prevention
Deputy Director of Studies
Columnist and former editorial board member at the Washington Post. Currently writing a book on hedge funds.
Globalization, trade, foreign assistance, hedge funds.
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Former Washington bureau chief at the Financial Times. Current work examines U.S. visa and border policies as well as American competitiveness.
U.S. economic competitiveness, U.S. trade policy, visa and immigration policy
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics
Deputy Director for the Western Hemisphere at 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.
Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals-And Only Liberals-Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again. Editor-at-Large and former editor of the New Republic, columnist for the Washington Post, and contributor to Time magazine. Current work examines how the United States recovers from lost wars.
U.S. national security; domestic politics and foreign policy; foreign policy history; the media and foreign policy; nationalism; democracy and human rights; Congress; the presidency.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
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, will be released in July 2008.
International trade; economic policy reforms; immigration.
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.
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.
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, 2008). Recently coauthored Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security. Director of the Council’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.
Douglas Dillon Fellow
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.
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 book on how the rise of China is reshaping the landscape of East Asia.
Chinese domestic and foreign policy; U.S.-China relations; global environmental issues.
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.
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 Reports Nuclear Energy: Balancing Benefits and Risks, U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation (coauthor), and Preventing Catastrophic Nuclear Terrorism.
Nuclear nonproliferation; nuclear and radiological terrorism; prevention and response; U.S. and international nuclear policies.
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
Author of The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation (2007) and America the Vulnerable (2004). Former adviser on homeland security for the U.S. Commission on National Security (Hart-Rudman Commission) and retired Coast Guard officer. Researches and writes on issues related to homeland security.
Catastrophic terrorism; emergency preparedness; critical infrastructure protection;trade and transportation security; and border control modernization.
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.
Adjunct Fellow for Africa
Former senior U.S. Senate staffer with expertise in sub-Saharan Africa. Work focuses on the foreign policy implications of large youth populations in the developing world. Author of the Council Special Report on Zimbabwe.
Congress and U.S. foreign policy, sub-Saharan Africa, human rights, corruption, HIV/AIDS
Roger Hertog Senior Fellow
Former presidential policy adviser and speechwriter. Author of Heroic Conservatism, released in October 2007.
Democracy promotion; human rights issues; health and disease; religion and politics.
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 for International Economics
Professor emeritus at Princeton University and consultant to the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Board, IMF, and UN. Author of Regional Monetary Integration, released in November 2007.
Currency and financial crises; the International Monetary Fund; European Monetary Union; monetary cooperation among developing countries.
Henry Kaufman Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics and Finance
Former chief economist at the New York Stock Exchange and senior economic adviser at an international banking firm. Currently writing a book examining the American financial system and corporate scandals.
International finance; economics.
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.
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and Environment
Author of On Nuclear Terrorism, released in November 2007. Currently directing a Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on climate change.
Weapons of mass destruction; homeland security; arms control and proliferation; technology and foreign policy; science and technology in the Islamic world.
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
Postdoctoral fellow at International Security Studies, Yale University. Writing a book on Russian foreign policy.
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.
U.S. foreign policy; international political economy; domestic politics; religion and foreign policy.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Military Fellows Program
Retired Army general with experience in Iraq, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Directed the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force that produced the report In the Wake of War: Improving U.S. Post-Conflict Capabilities.
Conflict prevention; national security; civil-military relations and coordination; post-conflict reconstruction.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author of The Shia Revival, Democracy in Iran, and The Islamic Leviathan. Professor of international politics at Tufts University. Current work examines Iraq, Iran, and democracy in the Islamic world.
Iran; Iraq; Pakistan; political Islam; comparative politics of South Asia and the Middle East; democratization in Muslim world.
Fellow for Latin America Studies
Adjunct assistant professor of political science at Columbia University. Currently directing a Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward Latin America.
Latin America; policy reform; immigration
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.
Multilateral cooperation and global governance; United Nations; weak and failing states; post-conflict reconstruction; transnational threats; U.S. foreign policy; diplomatic history.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy
A lawyer and business executive with extensive experience in global communications, multinational business strategy, and international human rights law. Adjunct professor of business and human rights at Columbia University Business School and Law School.
Corporate social responsibility strategies for global companies; role of the private sector in addressing social issues and promoting economic and political reform.
Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies
Director of the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on Chinese military power and author of Digital Dragon: High Technology Enterprises in China. Currently writing a book on Asia’s innovative capabilities and U.S. technology.
Technology and development in China and India; East Asian security; Chinese domestic and foreign policy.
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 Council-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.
Fellow for Geoeconomics
Applied international economist with experience at the U.S. Treasury and the International Monetary Fund. Currently examining central bank reserve growth, sovereign wealth funds, and the political implications of emerging market financing of the United States.
Central bank reserves and sovereign wealth funds, IMF policy, emerging market economies.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Religion and Foreign Policy
Award-winning political scientist and expert on religion and world politics. Current research focuses on religion and foreign policy.
Religion and foreign policy; religion and the theory and practice of democracy; global democratization; Third World religion and politics; South Asia; religion and domestic politics.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations
Senior researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and former deputy assistant secretary of defense. Currently examining the role that alliances should play in U.S. national security.
National security; proliferation prevention; defense leadership and management; alliance relations; Europe; NATO and the European Union; the former Soviet Union; Central Asia; China.
Senior Fellow for Economic History
Author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression; syndicated columnist for Bloomberg. Current work examines the relationship between entrepreneurship and foreign policy.
Germany; Russia; economics; U.S. tax policy; relative competitiveness.
Hasib J. Sabbagh 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
Professor of business administration at Dartmouth University and former member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Currently coauthoring a report that documents growing international trends to restrict foreign direct investment.
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.
Senior Fellow for Economic Policy and Director of the Center for Universal Education
Former national economic adviser and coauthor of the Council report What Works in Girls’ Education. Current work examines ways to extend education to displaced children and those living in emergency situations.
Economic policy; international education assistance.
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 Iraq Study Group's Strategic Environment Expert Working Group. Currently focusing on conflict prevention strategies for regions of concern.
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, editor of International Finance, and cofounder of a transatlantic financial markets consultancy firm. Currently writing a book analyzing 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 book Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century was released in April 2006.
Latin America; U.S.-Latin America policy; Anti-Americanism.
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author of The Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World (forthcoming). Recently completed Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic, which examines the complexities of Iranian politics and its relationship with its regional counterparts and with the United States.
Iran; Persian Gulf and U.S. foreign policy.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology
Director of recent Council-sponsored Independent Task Force that produced the report National Security Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependency. Author of the Council Policy Initiative Climate Change: Debating America’s Policy Options. Currently writing a report on the strategic petroleum reserve.
Technology and foreign policy; energy policy; international environmental politics.
Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow
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.
International Affairs Fellow
Former director of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s Institute for Leadership. Adjunct associate research scholar at Columbia University working on issues related to marine navigation in a melting Arctic, homeland security, and the future of shipping.
The Arctic; homeland security; U.S. foreign policy; shipping.
Colonel Robert S. Ferrell, USA
Military Fellow, U.S. Army
Signal Corps Officer and former European Strategic Communications Brigade Commander. Coordinated the Army’s legislative agenda with that of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees of the U.S. Congress. Currently researching and writing on warfare strategy, congressional affairs, and peacekeeping operations.
Military strategy and the conduct of land war; Army and OSD staff planning and execution; commercial through strategic communications applications; Army congressional legislative issues.
International Affairs Fellow
Field-based expertise in stability operations. Currently studying USAID’s efficacy in carrying out its role in stability operations, using her experience on an Afghan Provincial Reconstruction Team as a case study.
Stability operations, post-conflict reconstruction, USAID, civil-military coordination.
Colonel Paul E. Greenwood, USMC
Military Fellow, U.S. Marine Corps
Former commanding officer at Camp Kisner, Okinawa, Japan, and former branch chief for Programs and Resources in the Antiterrorism/Force Protection Division of the J-34 Deputy Directorate for Antiterrorism and Homeland Defense. Currently examining the use of military force and its relevance to U.S. foreign policy.
U.S. national security strategy, leadership, logistics, anti-terrorism and force protection.
Captain Jeffrey A. Harley, USN
Military Fellow, U.S. Navy
Surface Warfare Officer and former Sea Combat Commander. Currently examining maritime strategy and Joint Force issues.
U.S. national security policy; military strategy and the conduct of war; technology in modern warfare; Asia-Pacific studies, and recent operations in the war on terrorism.
National Intelligence Fellow
Member of the Senior National Intelligence Service with over twenty years experience in intelligence, defense, and foreign policy issues.
Middle East, counterterrorism, intelligence.
Cyrus Vance Fellow in Diplomatic Studies on Africa
Veteran American diplomat with twenty-eight years in the U.S. Foreign Service at the State Department and seven embassies in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
U.S. foreign policy and its management, Africa, U.S. foreign assistance policy, multifaceted economic development.
Colonel Jeffrey B. Kendall, USAF
Military Fellow, U.S. Air Force
F-15 fighter pilot and former wing commander for internationally manned and managed flying training program. Currently examining airpower strategy, training, and employment expertise and contemporary Air Force and defense related issues.
Military strategy and the conduct of war, allied and coalition air operations, international training, multinational and joint staff planning and execution, application of tactical air assets and unmanned aerial vehicles.
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