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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 role of law in Asian countries.
Legal and business transactions in Asia; international relations of East Asia; international law.
Phone: +1-212-434-9635
Email: jcohen@cfr.org
C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies
Award-winning author of The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China’s Future. Currently writing a book on the implications of China’s global quest for natural resources.
Chinese domestic and foreign policy; U.S.-China relations; global environmental issues.
Phone: +1-212-434-9641
Email: eeconomy@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
Fellow for Geoeconomics
Applied international economist with experience at the U.S. Treasury and the International Monetary Fund. Currently examining central bank reserve growth, sovereign wealth funds, and the political implications of emerging market financing of the United States.
Central bank reserves and sovereign wealth funds, IMF policy, emerging market economies.
Phone: +1-212-434-9639
Email: bsetser@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Globalization
Associate dean and professor of international economics at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and former member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Coauthor of the recent Council Special Report, Global FDI Policy.
The economics and politics of globalization, multinational firms and capital markets, immigration, technological innovation, and the causes and consequences of the globalization backlash
Phone: +1-603-646-2939
Email: matthew.j.slaughter@tuck.dartmouth.edu
C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies
Award-winning author of The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China’s Future. Currently writing a book on the implications of China’s global quest for natural resources.
Chinese domestic and foreign policy; U.S.-China relations; global environmental issues.
Phone: +1-212-434-9641
Email: eeconomy@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 Reports Nuclear Energy: Balancing Benefits and Risks, U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation (coauthor), and Preventing Catastrophic Nuclear Terrorism.
Nuclear nonproliferation; nuclear and radiological terrorism; prevention and response; U.S. and international nuclear policies.
Phone: +1-202-509-8460
Email: msmith@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
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
Deputy Director of Studies
Columnist and former editorial board member at the Washington Post. Currently writing a book on hedge funds.
Globalization, trade, foreign assistance, hedge funds.
Phone: +1-202-509-8446
Email: smallaby@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow
International lawyer and arbitrator and formerly the legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State. Currently directing a roundtable series on law and foreign policy.
International trade and investment law, international maritime and land boundary law, corporate governance.
Phone: +1-212-434-9683
Email: davisrrobinson@verizon.net
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology
Director of recent Council-sponsored Independent Task Force that produced the report National Security Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependency. Author of the Council Policy Initiative Climate Change: Debating America’s Policy Options. Currently writing a report on the strategic petroleum reserve.
Technology and foreign policy; energy policy; international environmental politics.
Phone: +1-650-724-1712
Email: David.Victor@stanford.edu
Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow 2007-2008
Former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday. Currently working on a project about Hezbollah and the Shiite community in Lebanon.
Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Islamic militancy, Shiite politics.
Counselor
Former deputy assistant to the President, deputy national security adviser for strategic planning, and presidential envoy to Iraq. U.S. Ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003.
Transatlantic relations; the United States and Asia; Russia and the West; the United States and the Middle East.
Phone: +1-212-434-9888
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author of Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey. Directed the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward reform in the Arab world. Currently writing a book on the future of U.S.-Egypt relations.
Politics in the Arab world; U.S.-Middle East policy; Turkish politics; civil-military relations in the Middle East; Arab-Israeli conflict.
Phone: +1-202-509-8620
Email: scook@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Professor of law at Harvard University. Author of After Jihad, What We Owe Iraq, and Divided by God. Former senior constitutional adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Author of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, released in April 2008.
Relationship between law and religion in both the Western and Middle Eastern context; Middle East politics; North Africa; Islamic constitutional thought.
Email: noah_feldman@harvard.edu
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 Reports Nuclear Energy: Balancing Benefits and Risks, U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation (coauthor), and Preventing Catastrophic Nuclear Terrorism.
Nuclear nonproliferation; nuclear and radiological terrorism; prevention and response; U.S. and international nuclear policies.
Phone: +1-202-509-8460
Email: msmith@cfr.org
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Award-winning author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World. Author of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, released in October 2007.
U.S. foreign policy; international political economy; domestic politics; religion and foreign policy.
Phone: +1-212-434-9548
Email: wmead@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author of The Shia Revival, Democracy in Iran, and The Islamic Leviathan. Professor of international politics at Tufts University. Current work examines Iraq, Iran, and democracy in the Islamic world.
Iran; Iraq; Pakistan; political Islam; comparative politics of South Asia and the Middle East; democratization in Muslim world.
Phone: +1-619-339-9192
Email: vali.nasr@tufts.edu
Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
Former senior director for nonproliferation and export controls at the National Security Council and editor of three International Institute for Strategic Studies "dossiers" on weapons programs in Iraq, North Korea, and Iran.
Nuclear proliferation and arms control, especially in the Middle East and Asia
Phone: +1-212-434-9627
Email: gsamore@cfr.org
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
Complete list of CFR Books.
This report outlines the nature of the challenges in Pakistan's tribal areas, formulates strategies for addressing those challenges, and distills the strategies into realistic policy proposals worthy of consideration by the incoming administration.
This report analyzes the debate over U.S. use of assurances against torture, explaining the contexts in which they are used, how they can be conveyed, and what they can contain, and recommends a number of ways to respond to criticism so that the United States can continue using assurances.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:
Gary Samore
Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
+1.212.434.9627
gsamore@cfr.org
Sebastian Mallaby
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for
Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior
Fellow for International Economics
smallaby@cfr.org
Janine Hill
Deputy Director of Studies Administration
+1.212.434.9753
jhill@cfr.org
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