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.
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Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Former senior director for democracy and human rights, senior director for the Near East, and deputy national security adviser handling Middle East affairs in the George W. Bush administration. Former assistant secretary of state for UN affairs, human rights, and Latin America in the Reagan administration.
Adjunct Fellow for Energy
Director and senior strategist for commodity cross-asset strategy at Citigroup and adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Current research focuses energy, finance, and international economics.
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Former Washington bureau chief at the Financial Times. Recently co-directed the Independent Task Force on U.S. Trade and Investment Policy and was the project director for the Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy. 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.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Energy
Senior vice president of energy research at IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA). Current work focuses on energy and national security issues.
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Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Journalism professor at New York University. Former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday. Currently working on a project about sectarian politics in the Middle East.
National Intelligence Fellow
Senior intelligence analyst on national security impacts of climate change, with experience in Middle East politics and counterterrorism. Current work examines Middle East regional dynamics and political and security impacts of climate and environmental stresses.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law
Partner at Arnold & Porter, LLP. Former legal adviser for the U.S. Department of State and National Security Council. Currently directing a roundtable series on international and national security law.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
Senior Fellow for International Economics
Roger Hertog Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Former deputy assistant to the president, deputy national security adviser for strategic planning, and presidential envoy to Iraq under George W. Bush. U.S. Ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003. Current work focuses on American foreign policy writ large as well as American foreign policy toward India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development
Expert on legal and regulatory issues in global health, technological innovation and delivery, and international trade. Adjunct professor of law, former U.S. trade negotiator. Currently directing a roundtable series on Global Health, Economics, and Development.
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.
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia
Former director for Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. Leading architect of U.S. policy toward Indonesia during the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Currently directing a roundtable series that focuses on Asia.
Military Fellow, U.S. Army
Recently deployed for one year to Afghanistan as logistics officer for the NATO Training Mission. Commanded a logistics Company, Battalion, and Brigade in the Republic of Korea over three tours. Served as the military aide to the Secretary of the Army and served twice on the Joint staff.
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Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies
Career Foreign Service officer and former ambassador to Nigeria. Political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria during South Africa's first non-racial elections. His book Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink was published by Rowman & Littlefield in November 2010.
Fellow for Energy and National Security
Former private sector oil analyst and instructor in finance and economics at Oxford University. Current research focuses on energy security and policy, global commodities markets, and natural resource economics.
Cyrus Vance Fellow in Diplomatic Studies
Senior State Department officer with experience in South Asia, Latin America's Southern Cone, and general development economics. Current work examines Afghanistan/Pakistan regional dynamics and international assistance paradigms.
Director of Google Ideas, Google Inc. Former member of the policy planning staff under both Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.
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 rule of law in Asian countries.
CFR Experts Guide
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.