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.

Defense/Homeland Security

Max Boot

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies

Award-winning author, historian, and military strategist. Author of The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power and War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today. Finishing Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present, which will be released by W.W. Norton & Co. in January 2013.

Andrew Coe

Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow

Assistant professor of international relations at University of Southern California and adjunct member of research staff at Institute for Defense Analyses. Currently working on game-theoretic analyses of nuclear proliferation and the non-proliferation regime.

Richard A. Falkenrath

Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Adjunct Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security

Expert on counterterrorism and national security issues. Principal at Chertoff Group. Former deputy commissioner for counterterrorism with the New York City Police Department.

Frank G. Klotz

Senior Fellow for Strategic Studies and Arms Control

Lieutenant General, USAF (Ret.). Former commander of Air Force Global Strike Command. Previously defense attaché to Moscow and director for nuclear policy and arms control on the National Security Council staff. Current work examines the nuclear arms control policies of the United States and the other nuclear weapons states.

Charles A. Kupchan

Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow

Author of No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (2012). Professor of international affairs at Georgetown University. Former director for European affairs at the National Security Council.

Michael A. Levi

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.

Carla Anne Robbins

Adjunct Senior Fellow

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.

Gideon Rose

Editor, Foreign Affairs, and Peter G. Peterson Chair, Foreign Affairs

Former National Security Council official in the Clinton administration; expert on national security and terrorism. Author of How Wars End (Simon & Schuster, October 2010).

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.

Captain Peter Troedsson, USCG

Military Fellow, U.S. Coast Guard

Senior Coast Guard officer and helicopter pilot; most recently served as Chief of Staff, Eighth Coast Guard District with area of responsibility encompassing Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River system. Extensive operational background in management of search and rescue, maritime law enforcement and security, maritime safety and environmental response missions.

Arms Industries and Trade

Arms Trade

Border and Ports

Michael A. Levi

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.

Shannon K. O'Neil

Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies

Director of the recent Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward Latin America. Currently authoring a book on Mexico and U.S.-Mexico relations (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).

Captain Peter Troedsson, USCG

Military Fellow, U.S. Coast Guard

Senior Coast Guard officer and helicopter pilot; most recently served as Chief of Staff, Eighth Coast Guard District with area of responsibility encompassing Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River system. Extensive operational background in management of search and rescue, maritime law enforcement and security, maritime safety and environmental response missions.

Port Security

Michael A. Levi

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.

Captain Peter Troedsson, USCG

Military Fellow, U.S. Coast Guard

Senior Coast Guard officer and helicopter pilot; most recently served as Chief of Staff, Eighth Coast Guard District with area of responsibility encompassing Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River system. Extensive operational background in management of search and rescue, maritime law enforcement and security, maritime safety and environmental response missions.