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.
Fellow for Energy and National Security
Former private sector oil analyst and instructor in finance and economics at Oxford University. Current research focuses on energy security and policy, global commodities markets, and natural resource economics.
C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies
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.
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
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.