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Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Author of Surprise Attack: Lessons for Defense Planning and professor at Columbia University. Commissioner to the National Commission on Terrorism and former staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Current work examines the U.S. national security agenda.
Intelligence and U.S. defense policy; military strategy; political and military intelligence; international conflict; terrorism.
Phone: +1-212-854-7325
Email: rkb4@columbia.edu
Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Award-winning author of Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle. Former associate professor and Elihu Root chair of military studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. Current work examines U.S. defense policy and strategy.
U.S. national security policy; military strategy and the conduct of war; technology in modern warfare; recent operations in the war on terror.
Phone: +1-202-509-8476
Email: sbiddle@cfr.org
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
Award-winning author and former editorial editor for The Wall Street Journal. Author of War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today. Currently writing a history of guerrilla warfare.
Defense policy; defense budget; proliferation; nation-building and peacekeeping; democracy and human rights; U.S. grand strategy; national security; military technology; military history; U.S. foreign policy; terrorism and guerilla warfare; terrorism; media.
Phone: +1.212.434.9619
Email: mboot@cfr.org
Visiting Fellow for Ocean Governance
Former director of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s Institute for Leadership. Adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia University working on issues related to the foreign policy implications of the melting Arctic, homeland security, and the future of shipping. Currently directing a roundtable series on strategic ocean governance.
The Arctic; ocean policy; homeland security; U.S. foreign policy; shipping.
Phone: +1-212-434-9618
Email: sborgerson@cfr.org
Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology
Recipient of the Robert S. Landauer Memorial Lecturer Award for outstanding scientific achievement toward improving the security of radioactive sources. Author of the Council Special Report Nuclear Energy: Balancing Benefits and Risks and director of the Council Special Report China, Space Weapons, and U.S. Security.
Nuclear nonproliferation; nuclear and radiological terrorism; prevention and response; U.S. and international nuclear policies; arms control, climate change, energy policy, and nuclear energy.
Phone: +1-202-509-8460
Email: cferguson@cfr.org
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
International Affairs Fellow in Residence
Former counterterrorism analyst for the New York Police Department and policy adviser for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Working on a forthcoming book on the Middle East.
Iraq, Egypt, Kurdish issues, Middle East politics and political reform; terrorism and counterterrorism, international terrorism and security, insurgency and counterinsurgency.
Phone: +1.212.434.9625
Email: lkhalil@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
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
International Affairs Fellow in Residence
Former policy advisor on counterterrorism issues at both the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Currently researching long-term approaches to mitigating terrorist threats, including detainee rehabilitation efforts.
U.S. national security policy; terrorism and counterterrorism policy; terrorist financing, U.S. detention policy, Arabian Peninsula issues.
Phone: +1.202.509.8518
Email: mporges@cfr.org
Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs
Former National Security Council official in the Clinton administration; expert on national security and terrorism.
International conflict; Middle East, Persian Gulf, and South Asia; terrorism; economic sanctions.
Phone: +1-212-434-9629
Email: grose@cfr.org
Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies
Currently leading a study group on Asian innovation and technological entrepreneurship. Forthcoming book looks at the technological rise of Asia. Previously the project director for a Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on Chinese military modernization.
Technology and development in China and India; East Asian security; Chinese domestic and foreign policy.
Phone: +1-212-434-9745
Email: asegal@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Award-winning coauthor of The Age of Sacred Terror and The Next Attack. Former director for global issues and senior director for transnational threats at the National Security Council. Current work examines the consequences of the American intervention in Iraq, Muslim/non-Muslim relations, and the role of religion in U.S. foreign policy.
U.S. security policy in the Middle East and South Asia; Middle East politics; Palestinian-Israeli relations; transatlantic approaches to Islamic activism; terrorism and counterterrorism; intelligence reform.
Phone: +1.202.509.8437
Email: ssimon@cfr.org
Fellow for Conflict Prevention
Political scientist with expertise in national security issues. Currently researching and writing on the prevention of violent conflict and turning his dissertation on limited uses of military force into a book.
Conflict prevention; U.S. national security policy; military planning and operations; nuclear weapons policy.
Phone: +1.212.434.9845
Email: mzenko@cfr.org
Fellow for Conflict Prevention
Political scientist with expertise in national security issues. Currently researching and writing on the prevention of violent conflict and turning his dissertation on limited uses of military force into a book.
Conflict prevention; U.S. national security policy; military planning and operations; nuclear weapons policy.
Phone: +1.212.434.9845
Email: mzenko@cfr.org
Visiting Fellow for Ocean Governance
Former director of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s Institute for Leadership. Adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia University working on issues related to the foreign policy implications of the melting Arctic, homeland security, and the future of shipping. Currently directing a roundtable series on strategic ocean governance.
The Arctic; ocean policy; homeland security; U.S. foreign policy; shipping.
Phone: +1-212-434-9618
Email: sborgerson@cfr.org
Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology
Recipient of the Robert S. Landauer Memorial Lecturer Award for outstanding scientific achievement toward improving the security of radioactive sources. Author of the Council Special Report Nuclear Energy: Balancing Benefits and Risks and director of the Council Special Report China, Space Weapons, and U.S. Security.
Nuclear nonproliferation; nuclear and radiological terrorism; prevention and response; U.S. and international nuclear policies; arms control, climate change, energy policy, and nuclear energy.
Phone: +1-202-509-8460
Email: cferguson@cfr.org
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
International Affairs Fellow in Residence
Former counterterrorism analyst for the New York Police Department and policy adviser for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Working on a forthcoming book on the Middle East.
Iraq, Egypt, Kurdish issues, Middle East politics and political reform; terrorism and counterterrorism, international terrorism and security, insurgency and counterinsurgency.
Phone: +1.212.434.9625
Email: lkhalil@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
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For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:
James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
+1.212.434.9626 (NY); +1.202.509.8405 (DC)
jlindsay@cfr.org
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Deputy Director of Studies Administration
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