Faculty Session Overview

Faculty for Seminar XXI includes renowned social scientists from MIT and subject matter experts from other top universities and research institutes in the United States and around the globe. Past faculty members have included Michèle Flournoy, Condoleezza Rice, Bernard Lewis, Samuel Huntington, Sarah Chayes, John Mearsheimer, Joseph Nye, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Gerard Prunier, and James Dobbins.

Name

Rawi Abdelal
Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School
Scott Appleby
Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
Joel Brenner
Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Studies, MIT
Daniel Byman
Professor, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University, Senior Fellow, Transnational Threats Program, CSIS
Sarah Chayes
Independent Scholar
Fiona Cunningham
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander de Waal
Executive Director, World Peace Foundation, Research Professor, Tufts University
Alexander Downes
Professor of Political Science & International Affairs, George Washington University
Daniel Drezner
Distinguished Professor of International Politics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Kevin M. Esvelt
Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab, Director, Sculpting Evolution Group
Liana Fix
Fellow for Europe, Council on Foreign Relations
Gregory Gause
Associate Fellow, Middle East Institute, Professor Emeritus of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
Francis J. Gavin
Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Director, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins
Kelly M. Greenhill
Director, MIT Seminar XXI Program, Associate Professor of International Relations and Security Studies, Tufts University, Resident Senior Research Fellow and visiting professor, MIT
Ron Hassner
Chancellor's Professor of Political Science & Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Faculty Director, Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Senior Adviser, Khazanah Research Institute, Malaysia, Visiting Fellow, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University
Chappell Lawson
Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Janet Lewis
Associate Professor of Political Science, George Washington University
Keir Lieber
Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service & the Department of Government, Georgetown University
Suzanne Maloney
Vice President & Director of the Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution
Matthias Matthijs
Dean Acheson Chair, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
John Mearsheimer
R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Michael Mochizuki
Fellow, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Andrew Moravcsik
Professor of Politics, Princeton University, Director, European Union Program, Princeton University
Vipin Narang
Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security & Political Science, MIT
Abraham Newman
Professor, School of Foreign Service and Government Department, Georgetown University
Kenneth Oye
Professor of Political Science and Data Systems & Society, MIT, Director, Program on Emerging Technologies, MIT
Daryl Press
Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, Director, Dartmouth Initiative on Global Security
Natan Sachs
Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute
Adam Segal
Ira. A Lipman Chair in Emerging Technology and National Security, Council on Foreign Relations, Director, Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations
Andrew Selee
President, Migration Policy Institute
Oxana Shevel
Associate Professor of Political Science, Tufts University, Director, Tufts International Relations Program
Ömer Taşpınar
Professor of Security Studies, National Defense University, Adjunct Professor, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
Brian Taylor
Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University, Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University
Luis Videgaray
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management, Director, MIT AI Policy for the World Project
Steven Wilkinson
Nilekani Professor of India & South Asian Studies, Yale University
Edward You
Founder/Principal, EHY Consulting, FBI Supervisory Special Agent (Ret.), National Counterintelligence Task Force

Name

Daniel Agbiboa
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Peter Andreas
John Hay Professor of International Studies and Political Science, Brown University
David Art
Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
Robert Art
Former Seminar XXI Director, Herter Professor of International Relations at Brandeis University, Senior Fellow in the Security Studies Program at MIT’s Center for International Studies
Deborah Avant
Sié Chéou-Kang Chair for International Security and Diplomacy, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, Director of the Sié Center, University of Denver
Eva Bellin
Myra and Robert Kraft Professor of Arab Politics, Brandeis University
Nancy Birdsall
President Emeritus & Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Rachel Brown
Founder and Executive Director, Over Zero
Kurt M. Campbell
Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
Matthew Carnes
Associate Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University
Jasen Castillo
Associate Professor, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
Victor Cha
Vice Dean & the D.S. Song-KF Professor in Government & International Affairs, Georgetown University, Senior Adviser, CSIS
Jessica Chen Weiss
Michael J. Zak Professor for China & Asia-Pacific Studies, Cornell University
Thomas Christensen
Professor of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University
Richard Clarke
Founder & CEO, Good Harbor Cyber Security Risk Management
John Conger
President, Conger Strategies & Solutions, LLC, Director Emeritus, Center for Climate and Security, Senior Advisor, Council on Strategic Risks
Nancy Connell
Senior Scientist, Board on Life Sciences, US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Richard Danzig
Former Secretary of the Navy & Presidential Advisor, Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
John Deutch
emeritus Institute Professor, MIT
Aleksa Djilas
Independent Scholar
R. David Edelman
Director of Public Policy, MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative
Kimberly Elliott
Fellow, Center for Global Development, Visiting Scholar, George Washington University
Page Fortna
Harold Brown Professor of US Foreign & Security Policy, Columbia University
Taylor Fravel
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, MIT, Director, Security Studies Program, MIT
Sumit Ganguly
Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
Avery Goldstein
David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations, University of Pennsylvania, Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania, Associate Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics, University of Pennsylvania
Jack A. Goldstone
Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr., Chair Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, Senior Fellow, Mercatus Center, Global Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
Carol Graham
Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow, Brookings, College Park Professor, University of Maryland, Gallup Senior Scientist
Gigi Gronvall
Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Associate Professor of Environmental Health & Engineering, at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Harry Harris
Former US Ambassador to South Korea, Former Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command
Caroline Hartzell
Professor of Political Science, Gettysburg College
Kathleen Hicks
Director of the International Security Program, CSIS
Bruce Hoffman
Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University
Jolyon Howorth
Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, University of Bath
Manoj Jain
Associate Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Benjamin Jensen
Senior Fellow, Futures Lab, Defense & Security Department, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Josef Joffe
Professor of Practice/International Affairs, Johns Hopkins, Fellow, Hoover Institution
Stephen Kaplan
Associate Professor of Political Science & International Affairs, George Washington University, Fellow, Wilson Center
David Keith
Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Founder, Carbon Engineering
Jonathan Kirshner
Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Boston College, Stephen & Barbara Friedman Professor of International Political Economy Emeritus, Cornell University
Nicole Koenig
Head of Policy, Munich Security Conference
Andrey Kortunov
Director General, Russian International Affairs Council
Joshua Landis
Director, Center for Middle East Studies, University of Oklahoma
Christopher Layne
Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security, Texas A&M University
Ronan Lee
Doctoral Prize Fellow, Loughborough University London
Erik Lin-Greenberg
Leo Marx Career Development Associate Professor, MIT
Murray Lumpkin
Deputy Director, Integrated Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Lead, Global Regulatory Systems Initiatives, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Ram Manikkalingam
Founder & Director, Dialogue Advisory Group, Dr. of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Zoe Marks
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Omar McDoom
Associate Professor, London School of Economics & Political Science
Sophie Meunier
Senior Research Scholar, Princeton University
James Millward
Professor of Inter-societal History, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Malik Mufti
Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
Dipali Mukhopadhyay
Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University
Andrew Natsios
Executive Professor, George H.W. Bush School of Government, Texas A&M University
Melissa Nobles
Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, MIT, Professor of Political Science, MIT
Manuel Orozco
Director, Migration, Remittances & Development Program, Inter-American Dialogue
John Park
Director, Korea Project, Harvard Kennedy School
Kenneth Pollack
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Barry Posen
Ford International Professor of Political Science, MIT
Christopher Preble
Senior Fellow & Director, Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program, Stimson Center
Gerard Prunier
Independent Consultant on Eastern and Central African Affairs, Former Director of the French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Addis-Ababa
Marc Raibert
Executive Director, The AI Institute, Chairman & Founder, Boston Dynamics
Robert Ross
Professor of Political Science, Boston College , Research Associate, Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Richard Samuels
Ford International Professor of Political Science, MIT
Justin Sandefur
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development, Co-Director, CGD’s Education Program
Vivien A. Schmidt
Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University, Founding Director, Boston University Center for the Study of Europe
Peter W. Singer
Strategist & Senior Fellow, New America
Emma Sky
Director, World Fellows Program, Yale University, Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
Paul Staniland
Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, Nonresident Scholar, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Andrew Tabler
Martin J. Gross Fellow, Program on Arab Politics, Washington Institute
Ray Takeyh
Senior Fellow for Middle East studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Caitlin Talmadge
Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT
Monica Toft
Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Maya Tudor
University Lecturer, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, Fellow, St. Hilda's College
Chikako Kawakatsu Ueki
Professor of International Relations, Waseda University, Research Affiliate, MIT
Stephen Van Evera
Ford International Professor, MIT
Jim Walsh
Senior Research Associate, Security Studies Program, MIT
Stephen Walt
Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University
Barbara Walter
Rohr Professor of International Affairs, University of California, San Diego
Richard Wilcox
Private Sector Director, UN World Food Programme
Bisa Williams
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Williams Strategy Advisors
Josephine Wolff
Associate Professor, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Clint Work
Research Fellow & Professor, Center for Strategy and Military Power, National Defense University
Andrew Yeo
Director of Asian Studies, The Catholic University of America, Associate Professor of Politics, The Catholic University of America
Maria Zuber
E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, MIT, Vice President for Research, MIT

Name

  • Stephen Cohen
    Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, Brookings Institution
  • Benjamin Cohen
    Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy, University of California
  • James Dobbins
    Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation
  • Nicholas Eberstadt
    Senior Adviser to the National Board of Asian Research, Member of the visiting committee, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Michèle Flournoy
    Senior Adviser, The Boston Consulting Group, Co-Chair of the Board of Directors, Center for a New American Security
  • Chas Freeman, Jr.
    Chairman, Projects International, Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
  • Francis Fukuyama
    Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
  • Kevin Gallagher
    Associate Professor, Boston University
  • Thomas Homer-Dixon
    Chair, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs , Professor, Centre for Environment and Business, University of Waterloo
  • Donald Horowitz
    James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke University
  • Lise Howard
    Associate Professor, Georgetown University
  • Terry Karl
    Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for International Studies
  • James Kunder
    Affiliated Expert, The Lugar Center, Principal, Kunder/Reali Associates
  • James Lewis
    Senior Fellow and Director, Technology and Public Policy Program, CSIS
  • Roy Licklider
    Professor of Political Science, Rutgers
  • Herb Lin
    Senior Research Scholar, Stanford University
  • Marc Lynch
    Associate Professor of Political Science, George Washington University and the Elliott School of International Affairs
  • William McCants
    Fellow, Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings
  • Roland Paris
    Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
  • Janos Pasztor
    Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Executive Director, Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative
  • Stewart Patrick
    Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance
  • Ben Ross Schneider
    Professor, Political Science, MIT
  • Michael Singh
    Managing Director, The Washington Institute, Former Senior Director for Middle East Affairs, National Security Council
  • James Stavridis
    Dean, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
  • Frederic Wehrey
    Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Name

Rawi Abdelal
Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School
Daniel Agbiboa
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Peter Andreas
John Hay Professor of International Studies and Political Science, Brown University
Scott Appleby
Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
Robert Art
Former Seminar XXI Director, Herter Professor of International Relations at Brandeis University, Senior Fellow in the Security Studies Program at MIT’s Center for International Studies
David Art
Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
Deborah Avant
Sié Chéou-Kang Chair for International Security and Diplomacy, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, Director of the Sié Center, University of Denver
Eva Bellin
Myra and Robert Kraft Professor of Arab Politics, Brandeis University
Nancy Birdsall
President Emeritus & Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Joel Brenner
Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Studies, MIT
Rachel Brown
Founder and Executive Director, Over Zero
Daniel Byman
Professor, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University, Senior Fellow, Transnational Threats Program, CSIS
Kurt M. Campbell
Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
Matthew Carnes
Associate Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University
Jasen Castillo
Associate Professor, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
Victor Cha
Vice Dean & the D.S. Song-KF Professor in Government & International Affairs, Georgetown University, Senior Adviser, CSIS
Sarah Chayes
Independent Scholar
Jessica Chen Weiss
Michael J. Zak Professor for China & Asia-Pacific Studies, Cornell University
Thomas Christensen
Professor of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University
Richard Clarke
Founder & CEO, Good Harbor Cyber Security Risk Management
Benjamin Cohen
Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy, University of California
Stephen Cohen
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, Brookings Institution
John Conger
President, Conger Strategies & Solutions, LLC, Director Emeritus, Center for Climate and Security, Senior Advisor, Council on Strategic Risks
Nancy Connell
Senior Scientist, Board on Life Sciences, US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Fiona Cunningham
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Richard Danzig
Former Secretary of the Navy & Presidential Advisor, Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Alexander de Waal
Executive Director, World Peace Foundation, Research Professor, Tufts University
John Deutch
emeritus Institute Professor, MIT
Aleksa Djilas
Independent Scholar
James Dobbins
Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation
Alexander Downes
Professor of Political Science & International Affairs, George Washington University
Daniel Drezner
Distinguished Professor of International Politics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Nicholas Eberstadt
Senior Adviser to the National Board of Asian Research, Member of the visiting committee, Harvard School of Public Health
R. David Edelman
Director of Public Policy, MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative
Kimberly Elliott
Fellow, Center for Global Development, Visiting Scholar, George Washington University
Kevin M. Esvelt
Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab, Director, Sculpting Evolution Group
Liana Fix
Fellow for Europe, Council on Foreign Relations
Michèle Flournoy
Senior Adviser, The Boston Consulting Group, Co-Chair of the Board of Directors, Center for a New American Security
Page Fortna
Harold Brown Professor of US Foreign & Security Policy, Columbia University
Taylor Fravel
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, MIT, Director, Security Studies Program, MIT
Chas Freeman, Jr.
Chairman, Projects International, Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Francis Fukuyama
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Kevin Gallagher
Associate Professor, Boston University
Sumit Ganguly
Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
Gregory Gause
Associate Fellow, Middle East Institute, Professor Emeritus of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
Francis J. Gavin
Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Director, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins
Avery Goldstein
David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations, University of Pennsylvania, Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania, Associate Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics, University of Pennsylvania
Jack A. Goldstone
Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr., Chair Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, Senior Fellow, Mercatus Center, Global Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
Carol Graham
Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow, Brookings, College Park Professor, University of Maryland, Gallup Senior Scientist
Kelly M. Greenhill
Director, MIT Seminar XXI Program, Associate Professor of International Relations and Security Studies, Tufts University, Resident Senior Research Fellow and visiting professor, MIT
Gigi Gronvall
Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Associate Professor of Environmental Health & Engineering, at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Harry Harris
Former US Ambassador to South Korea, Former Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command
Caroline Hartzell
Professor of Political Science, Gettysburg College
Ron Hassner
Chancellor's Professor of Political Science & Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Faculty Director, Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Kathleen Hicks
Director of the International Security Program, CSIS
Bruce Hoffman
Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University
Thomas Homer-Dixon
Chair, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs , Professor, Centre for Environment and Business, University of Waterloo
Donald Horowitz
James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke University
Lise Howard
Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Jolyon Howorth
Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, University of Bath
Manoj Jain
Associate Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Benjamin Jensen
Senior Fellow, Futures Lab, Defense & Security Department, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Josef Joffe
Professor of Practice/International Affairs, Johns Hopkins, Fellow, Hoover Institution
Stephen Kaplan
Associate Professor of Political Science & International Affairs, George Washington University, Fellow, Wilson Center
Terry Karl
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for International Studies
David Keith
Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Founder, Carbon Engineering
Jonathan Kirshner
Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Boston College, Stephen & Barbara Friedman Professor of International Political Economy Emeritus, Cornell University
Nicole Koenig
Head of Policy, Munich Security Conference
Andrey Kortunov
Director General, Russian International Affairs Council
James Kunder
Affiliated Expert, The Lugar Center, Principal, Kunder/Reali Associates
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Senior Adviser, Khazanah Research Institute, Malaysia, Visiting Fellow, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University
Joshua Landis
Director, Center for Middle East Studies, University of Oklahoma
Chappell Lawson
Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christopher Layne
Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security, Texas A&M University
Ronan Lee
Doctoral Prize Fellow, Loughborough University London
James Lewis
Senior Fellow and Director, Technology and Public Policy Program, CSIS
Janet Lewis
Associate Professor of Political Science, George Washington University
Roy Licklider
Professor of Political Science, Rutgers
Keir Lieber
Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service & the Department of Government, Georgetown University
Herb Lin
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford University
Erik Lin-Greenberg
Leo Marx Career Development Associate Professor, MIT
Murray Lumpkin
Deputy Director, Integrated Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Lead, Global Regulatory Systems Initiatives, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Marc Lynch
Associate Professor of Political Science, George Washington University and the Elliott School of International Affairs
Suzanne Maloney
Vice President & Director of the Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution
Ram Manikkalingam
Founder & Director, Dialogue Advisory Group, Dr. of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Zoe Marks
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Matthias Matthijs
Dean Acheson Chair, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
William McCants
Fellow, Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings
Omar McDoom
Associate Professor, London School of Economics & Political Science
John Mearsheimer
R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Sophie Meunier
Senior Research Scholar, Princeton University
James Millward
Professor of Inter-societal History, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Michael Mochizuki
Fellow, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Andrew Moravcsik
Professor of Politics, Princeton University, Director, European Union Program, Princeton University
Malik Mufti
Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
Dipali Mukhopadhyay
Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University
Vipin Narang
Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security & Political Science, MIT
Andrew Natsios
Executive Professor, George H.W. Bush School of Government, Texas A&M University
Abraham Newman
Professor, School of Foreign Service and Government Department, Georgetown University
Melissa Nobles
Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, MIT, Professor of Political Science, MIT
Manuel Orozco
Director, Migration, Remittances & Development Program, Inter-American Dialogue
Kenneth Oye
Professor of Political Science and Data Systems & Society, MIT, Director, Program on Emerging Technologies, MIT
Roland Paris
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
John Park
Director, Korea Project, Harvard Kennedy School
Janos Pasztor
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Executive Director, Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative
Stewart Patrick
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance
Kenneth Pollack
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Barry Posen
Ford International Professor of Political Science, MIT
Christopher Preble
Senior Fellow & Director, Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program, Stimson Center
Daryl Press
Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, Director, Dartmouth Initiative on Global Security
Gerard Prunier
Independent Consultant on Eastern and Central African Affairs, Former Director of the French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Addis-Ababa
Marc Raibert
Executive Director, The AI Institute, Chairman & Founder, Boston Dynamics
Robert Ross
Professor of Political Science, Boston College , Research Associate, Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Natan Sachs
Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute
Richard Samuels
Ford International Professor of Political Science, MIT
Justin Sandefur
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development, Co-Director, CGD’s Education Program
Vivien A. Schmidt
Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University, Founding Director, Boston University Center for the Study of Europe
Ben Ross Schneider
Professor, Political Science, MIT
Adam Segal
Ira. A Lipman Chair in Emerging Technology and National Security, Council on Foreign Relations, Director, Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations
Andrew Selee
President, Migration Policy Institute
Oxana Shevel
Associate Professor of Political Science, Tufts University, Director, Tufts International Relations Program
Peter W. Singer
Strategist & Senior Fellow, New America
Michael Singh
Managing Director, The Washington Institute, Former Senior Director for Middle East Affairs, National Security Council
Emma Sky
Director, World Fellows Program, Yale University, Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
Paul Staniland
Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, Nonresident Scholar, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
James Stavridis
Dean, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Andrew Tabler
Martin J. Gross Fellow, Program on Arab Politics, Washington Institute
Ray Takeyh
Senior Fellow for Middle East studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Caitlin Talmadge
Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT
Ömer Taşpınar
Professor of Security Studies, National Defense University, Adjunct Professor, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
Brian Taylor
Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University, Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University
Monica Toft
Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Maya Tudor
University Lecturer, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, Fellow, St. Hilda's College
Chikako Kawakatsu Ueki
Professor of International Relations, Waseda University, Research Affiliate, MIT
Stephen Van Evera
Ford International Professor, MIT
Luis Videgaray
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management, Director, MIT AI Policy for the World Project
Jim Walsh
Senior Research Associate, Security Studies Program, MIT
Stephen Walt
Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University
Barbara Walter
Rohr Professor of International Affairs, University of California, San Diego
Frederic Wehrey
Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Richard Wilcox
Private Sector Director, UN World Food Programme
Steven Wilkinson
Nilekani Professor of India & South Asian Studies, Yale University
Bisa Williams
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Williams Strategy Advisors
Josephine Wolff
Associate Professor, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Clint Work
Research Fellow & Professor, Center for Strategy and Military Power, National Defense University
Andrew Yeo
Director of Asian Studies, The Catholic University of America, Associate Professor of Politics, The Catholic University of America
Edward You
Founder/Principal, EHY Consulting, FBI Supervisory Special Agent (Ret.), National Counterintelligence Task Force
Maria Zuber
E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, MIT, Vice President for Research, MIT

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