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Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and 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.
Phone: +1-212-434-9676
Email: gcopple@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1-212-434-9749
Email: ealavian@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1-212-434-9742; for all media requests call +1-212-434-9460
Email: JZelmati@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1-202-509-8424
Email: jimg@gwu.edu
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
Phone: +1-212-434-9543; for all media requests, contact Lisa Shields at +1-212-434-9888 or lshields@cfr.org
Email: president@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1-212-434-9504
Email: jhoge@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1-202-509-8400
Email: kking@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1.212.434.9688
Email: rkubarych@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1-202-509-8402
Email: ckupchan@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1.202.509.8473
Email: jkurlantzick@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1.202.509.8475
Email: plettow@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1-212-434-9495
Email: mlevi@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1.212.434.9639
Email: mlevinson@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1.212.434.9626 (NY); +1.202.509.8405 (DC)
Email: jlindsay@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1.202.363.6796
Email: tlippman@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1.202.509.8524
Email: swittels@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1.202.509.8446
Email: smallaby@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1.203.432.6248
Email: jmankoff@cfr.org
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.
Phone: +1-202-509-8441
Email: dmarkey@cfr.org
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