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.

Economics

Thomas Bollyky

Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development

Expert on international law and regulatory policy, noncommunicable diseases and tobacco control, technological innovation and delivery, international trade and investment, and intellectual property. Adjunct professor of law, former U.S. trade negotiator. Currently directing a roundtable series on Global Health, Economics, and Development.

Jerome A. Cohen

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 rule of law in Asian countries.

Isobel Coleman

Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative; Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program

Author of the book Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East (Random House, 2010). Contributing author to Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President (Brookings Institution Press, 2008). Coauthor of Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security (Hoover Institution Press, 2006).

James P. Dougherty

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.

Timothy F. Geithner

Distinguished Fellow

Former secretary of the treasury; former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Robert Kahn

Steven A. Tananbaum Senior Fellow for International Economics

Macroeconomist with substantial experience in public policy and markets. Current focus is on G-7 monetary and fiscal policies, financial markets, and crisis resolution.

Terra Lawson-Remer

Fellow for Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy

Former senior adviser at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Assistant professor of international affairs at The New School University. Directing the CFR-sponsored study on the political economy of democratic transitions and writing a book about global economic governance and inclusive growth. Coauthor of the Social & Economic Rights Fulfillment (SERF) Index.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Fellow and Deputy Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program

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.

Shannon K. O'Neil

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.

Peter R. Orszag

Adjunct Senior Fellow

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.

Adam Segal

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.

A. Michael Spence

Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Economist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001. Author of The Next Convergence, released in May 2011. Chairman of the Commission on Growth and Development.

Benn Steil

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, which earned him the 2010 Hayek Book Prize, analyzes the historical relationship between money and national sovereignty and its importance in understanding contemporary globalization.

Business and Foreign Policy

Edward Alden

Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow

Former Washington bureau chief at the Financial Times. Recently co-directed the Independent Task Force on U.S. Trade and Investment Policy and was the project director for the Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy. 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.

Thomas Bollyky

Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development

Expert on international law and regulatory policy, noncommunicable diseases and tobacco control, technological innovation and delivery, international trade and investment, and intellectual property. Adjunct professor of law, former U.S. trade negotiator. Currently directing a roundtable series on Global Health, Economics, and Development.

Karen Brooks

Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia

Former director for Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. Leading architect of U.S. policy toward Indonesia during the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Currently directing a roundtable series that focuses on Asia.

Jerome A. Cohen

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 rule of law in Asian countries.

James P. Dougherty

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.