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Each expert’s bio page contains his or her contact information, professional and educational history, links to publications and current research, a downloadable one-page biographical narrative, and a high-definition photo.
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Former Washington bureau chief at the Financial Times. 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.
U.S. economic competitiveness, U.S. trade policy, visa and immigration policy.
Phone: +1-202-509-8474
Email: ealden@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics
Deputy Director for the Western Hemisphere at the International Monetary Fund. Former economics and finance reporter for the Washington Post. Currently directing a roundtable series on global economics.
Financial crises management; foreign exchange markets; international economics; IMF and the World Bank; Japan; Argentina.
Phone: +1-202-509-8438
Email: arottas@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals-And Only Liberals-Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again. Editor-at-Large and former editor of the New Republic, columnist for the Washington Post, and contributor to Time magazine. Current work examines how the United States recovers from lost wars.
U.S. national security; domestic politics and foreign policy; foreign policy history; the media and foreign policy; nationalism; democracy and human rights; Congress; the presidency.
Phone: +1-202-509-8436
Email: pbeinart@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
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 International Economics
Author of In Defense of Globalization, special adviser to the UN and the World Trade Organization, and professor of economics at Columbia University. Latest book, Termites in the Trading System, discusses the deleterious effects of preferential trade agreements.
International trade; economic policy reforms; immigration.
Phone: +1-212-434-9667
Email: jbhagwati@cfr.org
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
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy
International investment banker, advises on cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Conducts research on business and transatlantic relations.
International business; finance and economics; media and communications; technology and foreign policy.
Phone: +1-212-272-4534
Email: dbraunschvig@cfr.org
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
Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Author of the forthcoming book Paradise Beneath Her Feet: Women and Reform in the Middle East (Random House, 2008). Recently coauthored Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security. Director of CFR’s Women and Foreign Policy program.
Economic development; gender issues in the Middle East and Southwest Asia; foreign aid; microfinance; education reform in the Middle East.
Phone: +1-212-434-9771
Email: icoleman@cfr.org
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 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.
American economic competitiveness; technological innovation and foreign policy.
Phone: +1-212-434-9750
Email: jdougherty@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
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 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.
Phone: +1-202-509-8460
Email: msmith@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: ewool@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for Global Health
Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of the Council report HIV and National Security: Where are the Links? Presently writing a book examining the global impact of infectious disease.
Global health systems; chronic and infectious diseases; bioterrorism; public health and its effects on foreign policy and national security.
Phone: +1-212-434-9749
Email: kschneider@cfr.org
Adjunct Fellow for Africa
Former senior U.S. Senate staffer with expertise in sub-Saharan Africa. Work focuses on the foreign policy implications of large youth populations in the developing world. Author of the Council Special Report on Zimbabwe.
Congress and U.S. foreign policy, sub-Saharan Africa, human rights, corruption, HIV/AIDS
Phone: +1-212-434-9496
Email: mgavin@cfr.org
President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow
Pulitzer Prize-winner, former correspondent for the New York Times, and senior official in State and Defense Departments; expert on U.S. foreign policy and national security.
U.S. foreign policy; national security; Russia; Persian Gulf.
Phone: +1-212-434-9742; for all media requests call +1-212-434-9460
Email: JZelmati@cfr.org
Roger Hertog Senior Fellow
Former presidential policy adviser and speechwriter. Author of Heroic Conservatism, released in October 2007.
Democracy promotion; human rights issues; health and disease; religion and politics.
Phone: +1-202-509-8403
Email: jkvernen@cfr.org
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Economic Crisis (10/10): Sebastian Mallaby argues that, “the fastest and fairest way to help ordinay people is via a budget stimulus package,” in the Washington Post.
Iran (10/10): Michael Gerson writes about diplomacy and the potential of a nuclear Iran, in the Washington Post.
U.S. Presidential Election (10/10): Peter Beinart discusses the role of race in the presidential campaigns, in Time .
China (10/9): Brian Klein argues that, “China's economy is actually facing a fundamental structural adjustment that has arrived much earlier than expected,” in the Far East Economic Review .
Financial Markets (10/9): Amity Shlaes writes, “this week's declines by stock markets ... are the prudent actions of a crowd crying 'fraud' and anticipating the inevitable,” on Bloomberg.com.
Healthcare Reform (10/8): Michael Gerson compares the healthcare plans of the presidential candidates, in the Washington Post.
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