Experts
The Council on Foreign Relations' David Rockefeller Studies Program—CFR's "think tank"—is home to more than seventy full-time, adjunct, and visiting scholars and practitioners (called fellows). Their expertise covers the world's major regions as well as the critical issues shaping today's global agenda. Download the printable CFR Experts Guide.
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Fellow for Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Journalist and researcher focusing on U.S. foreign policy, international development, women and economic development, and global entrepreneurship. Contributing editor-at-large at Newsweek/Daily Beast and author of the New York Times bestseller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana (HarperCollins, 2011), about a young woman whose business supported her family and her community during the Taliban years.
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change
Director of the CFR program on energy security and climate change and the CFR project on energy and national security. Currently writing books on the future of American energy and on China's natural resource quest. Author of studies and books on climate diplomacy, energy innovation, nuclear terrorism and proliferation, arms control, and science and technology in the Islamic world.
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
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Patrick J. Mahaney Jr., U.S. Army, most recently commanded the asymmetric warfare group based at Fort Meade, Maryland, where he was responsible for global support in countering asymmetric and irregular threats. He also commanded a special forces battalion and a special operations task force in operation enduring freedom.
Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics and Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies
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.
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Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies
Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Author of Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead (Oxford University Press, 2013), which analyzes the political, economic, and social transformations Mexico has undergone over the last three decades and why these changes matter for the United States.
Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice 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.
Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking at Citigroup. Columnist for Bloomberg View. Former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Barack Obama.
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Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow
David Palkki is the acting director of the National Defense University's Conflict Records Research Center. He also is coeditor of The Saddam Tapes: The Inner Workings of a Tyrant's Regime, 1978-2001, and has published a variety of journal articles and book chapters.
William J. Parker III is a U.S. Navy surface warfare officer who most recently commanded Destroyer Squadron Two Three. He has served nearly two years on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, as the senior military adviser to the secretary of state for Iraq affairs, as the senior adviser to the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, and in various joint and navy staff strategic planning positions.
Senior Fellow and Director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program
International Affairs Fellow
Alexandra Perina served for seven years in the U.S. Department of State as an attorney, most recently as the assistant legal adviser for political military affairs. Her areas of expertise include uses of force and war powers, the laws of war, cyber, and counterterrorism and intelligence matters.
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Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow
Mira Rapp-Hooper is a PhD candidate in political science at Columbia University. She has previously worked on extended deterrence and conflict escalation issues for the RAND Corporation. Her expertise includes nuclear weapons policy and strategy, alliance politics, security issues in East Asia, and nuclear nonproliferation.
Award-winning journalist and national security writer. Former deputy editorial page editor for the New York Times and chief diplomatic correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Directing a roundtable series focused on national security in an age of austerity.
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Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies
Currently leading projects on cybersecurity and cyberconflict. Recent book Advantage looks at the technological competitive advantages of Asia and the United States. Previously the project director for a CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on Chinese military modernization.
George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Globalization
Associate dean and the Signal Companies' Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Former member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Coauthor of the Council Special Report, Global FDI Policy.
Senior Fellow for Japan Studies
Expert on Japan and Asian international relations. Currently directing the project, China and India as Emerging Powers: Challenge or Opportunity for the United States and Japan?
CFR Experts Guide
The Council on Foreign Relations' David Rockefeller Studies Program—CFR's "think tank"—is home to more than seventy full-time, adjunct, and visiting scholars and practitioners (called "fellows"). Their expertise covers the world's major regions as well as the critical issues shaping today's global agenda.
Download the printable CFR Experts Guide.