The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a

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based in Washington, D.C., United States, with campuses in

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, Italy, and

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, China. It is consistently ranked one of the top

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for

international relations International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such ...

in the world. The school is devoted to the study of

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economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics anal ...

, and

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. The school has hosted world leaders on a regular basis for public debate in international affairs. The Nitze School was established in 1943 by

Paul H. Nitze Paul Henry Nitze (January 16, 1907 – October 19, 2004) was an American politician who served as United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, and Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department. He is best kno ...

and

Christian Herter Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895December 30, 1966) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. His moderate ...

who were seeking new methods of preparing men and women to cope with the international responsibilities that would be thrust upon the United States in the post-World War II world. Nitze feared the diplomatic and economic expertise developed in World War II might get lost if the nation became isolationist. Originally founded as a standalone graduate school, it became a part of

in 1950. The SAIS Washington, D.C. campus is located on Massachusetts Avenue NW's

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, just off

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and across from the

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and the

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, and next to the

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and the Peterson Institute.

History

The Nitze School of Advanced International Studies was established in 1943 by

and

in 1950. The founders assembled a faculty of scholars and professionals (often borrowed from other universities) to teach international relations, international economics, and foreign languages to a small group of students. The curriculum was designed to be both scholarly and practical. The natural choice for the location of the school was Washington, D.C., a city where international resources are abundant and where

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is shaped and set in motion. When the school opened in 1944, 15 students were enrolled. In 1955, the school created the

Bologna Center The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe in Bologna, Italy, is the European campus of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a division of Johns Hopkins University located in Washington, D.C. SAIS Europe offers an int ...

in Italy, the first full-time graduate school located in Europe under an American higher-education system. By 1963, Johns Hopkins SAIS outgrew its first quarters on Florida Avenue and moved to its present location on Massachusetts Avenue. In 1986, the Hopkins–Nanjing Center was created in

, China, expanding the school's global presence. In January 2019, Johns Hopkins University announced that it had purchased the

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building on Pennsylvania Avenue NW and will remodel the building to house SAIS and other Washington, D.C.-based programs. The school is a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), a group of schools of public policy, public administration, and international studies.

Organization and academic programs

Johns Hopkins SAIS is a global school with campuses on three continents. It has nearly 700 full-time students in Washington, D.C.; 190 full-time students in

, Italy; and about 160 full-time students in

, China. Of these, 60 percent come from the United States and 37 percent from more than 70 other countries. Around 50% are women and 22% are from U.S. minority groups. SAIS Europe is home to the

and the only full-time

graduate program in Europe that operates under an American higher-education system, and the Hopkins–Nanjing Center, which teaches courses in both Chinese and English, is jointly administered by Johns Hopkins SAIS and

Nanjing University Nanjing University (NJU; ) is a national public research university in Nanjing, Jiangsu. It is a member of C9 League and a Class A Double First Class University designated by the Chinese central government. NJU has two main campuses: the Xian ...

. The school offers multidisciplinary instruction leading to the degrees of

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for early and mid-career professionals, as well as a

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program. Approximately 300 students graduate from the Washington, D.C., campus each year from the two-year Master of Arts program in international relations and international economics. Unlike most other international affairs graduate schools that offer professional master's degrees, Johns Hopkins SAIS requires its Master of Arts candidates to be proficient in another language outside their mother tongue and fulfill the International Ecopass, a one-hour capstone oral examination synthesizing and integrating knowledge from the student's regional or functional concentration and international economics. The oral examination and international economics requirements of the Master of Arts curriculum have been the signature aspects of the school's education.

Reputation

A study conducted in 2005 examined graduate international relations programs throughout the United States, interviewing over a thousand professionals in the field, with the results subsequently published in ''

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'' magazine as " Inside the Ivory Tower" rankings. 65 percent of respondents named Johns Hopkins University–SAIS as the best terminal master's program in international relations. SAIS received the most votes, followed by Georgetown University's

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, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Tufts University's

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, and the

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at Columbia University. The latest edition of the study was produced in 2014, with the master's program at SAIS ranking second globally after the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. SAIS students and alumni have been informally known as the ‘SAIS Mafia’ among international relations circle especially by networks inside the Beltway owing to their presence within the field and close-knit community. Since 1990, SAIS and the Fletcher School have been the only non-law schools in the United States to participate in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Competing against full-time law students, SAIS generalists have performed very well. SAIS has twice placed second overall out of 12 schools and advanced to the "final four" in its region. In head-to-head competitions, SAIS has defeated schools such as

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and the

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. SAIS students have successfully competed in the Sustainable Innovation Summit Challenge hosted by Arizona State University's

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. Two different SAIS teams won first place in both 2007 and 2008. A joint team from SAIS and the

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received second place in the first "Global Challenge" competition, a first-of-its-kind competition that challenged teams of MBA and other graduate students to develop a public–private venture to support development and the tourism industry in Asia. The competition was organized in 2010 by the University of Maryland's

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and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Notable economists affiliated with the school include former

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Chief Economist Anne Krueger, and former Fulbright Chair in Economics at

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Michael D. Plummer. Many influential political scientists are also affiliated with the school, including

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winning historian Anne Applebaum,

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Board Member

Eric Edelman Eric Steven Edelman (born October 27, 1951) is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2005–2009), U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (2003–2005), U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Finland (1998–2001), and Princip ...

, member of the International Board of Advisors at

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Vali R. Nasr, former Counselor of the United States Department of State Eliot Cohen, former Chair in Southeast Asian Studies at the

Vikram Nehru, former Chairperson of the

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Advisory Committee Obiora Okafor, and former MIT Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies Francis J. Gavin.

Annual themes

From 2005 to 2012, Johns Hopkins SAIS dedicated a substantive theme for each academic year in order to encourage its students, faculty, academic programs, policy centers, and alumni to examine the role of the particular theme within international affairs. These specific themes provided opportunities for the school to review scholarship and exchange views through special lectures, conferences, and guest speakers. The school hosted public events during the following themes of Energy (2005–06), China (2006–07), Elections and Foreign Policy (2007–08), Year of Water (2008–09), Religion (2009–10), Demography (2010–11), and Agriculture (2011–12) and enhanced its fundraising with high-profile public events such as the lecture delivered by then–vice president of BP,

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, during the Year of Energy in 2005.

Child Protection Project

In June 2009, The Protection Project at SAIS partnered with the Koons Family Institute of the

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(ICMEC), creating the Child Protection Project, to draft a model law focusing on the issues of child protection; in particular: "neglect, abuse, maltreatment, and exploitation". The primary objectives of the Child Protection Project are to "research existing child protection laws in the 193 member states of the United Nations (UN); convene a series of regional expert working group meetings to establish a common definition for 'child protection'; create a database of national legislation and case law on child protection issues from around the world; and draft, publish, and globally disseminate model child protection legislation". The drafting process included six expert group meetings, held in Singapore, Egypt, Costa Rica, Spain, Turkey, and the U.S. The final version of the Child Protection Model Law was published in January 2013. It was presented to the members of the UN

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during its 62nd Session in Geneva, Switzerland, in January 2013. It was also presented before the 129th Assembly of the

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(IPU) in Geneva in October 2013. Accompanying the Child Protection Model Law, ICMEC and The Protection Project published a companion "100 Best Practices in Child Protection" guide in 2013.

Research centers

* JHU Foreign Policy Institute * Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies * Bologna Institute for Policy Research (Italy) * Center for Canadian Studies * Central Asia-Caucasus Institute * Silk Road Studies Program * Center For Constitutional Studies And Democratic Development (Italy) * Center for Displacement Studies * Center for International Business and Public Policy * Center for Strategic Education * Center on Politics and Foreign Relations * China-Africa Research Initiative * Cultural Conversations * The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies * Hopkins-Nanjing Research Center (China) * Grassroots China Initiative * Institute for International Research (China) * International Reporting Project * Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies * The Protection Project * Public-Private Partnerships Initiative * Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on Constructive Capitalism * SME Institute * Swiss Foundation for World Affairs * Global Energy and Environment Initiative * Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative

Publications

In addition to the different books and periodicals edited by SAIS programs or research centers, several school-wide publications are to be mentioned: * '' SAIS Review'' – A journal on leading contemporary issues of world affairs, founded in 1956 * ''SAIS Observer'' – A student-written, student-run newspaper founded in 2002, the official student newspaper of the global SAIS community * ''SAIS Reports'' – A newsletter that highlights new faculty, research institutes, academic programs, student and alumni accomplishments, and events at the school, published bimonthly from September through May * ''SAIS Europe Journal of Global Affairs'' (formally the '' Bologna Center Journal of International Affairs'') – A student-run journal on scholarly contributions to international relations, published online and annually as a print version * ''Centerpiece'' – The alumni newsletter of the Nanjing Center * ''Working Paper Series'' – A series of papers managed by the PhD students

Notable alumni

Johns Hopkins SAIS has nearly 17,000

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working around the world in approximately 140 countries. Over 130 SAIS graduates have become ambassadors for various countries. *

Mahamat Ali Adoum Mahamat Ali Adoum (born 14 November 1947
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– former foreign affairs minister,

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's ambassador to the

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* Ebenezer Akuete – former Ghanaian diplomat *

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– former U.S. Secretary of State (attended SAIS, but did not earn degree) *

Peter F. Allgeier Peter Frederick Allgeier was the U.S. Deputy Trade Representative from May 2001 until August 2009. Allgeier was also the President of C&M International, Ltd., an affiliate of Crowell & Moring LLP, a law firm with offices in Washington, D.C., Cali ...

– deputy

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(2001–09) and former acting U.S. Trade Representative *

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– Washington, D.C.-based activist and author. Co-founded punk activist group

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and senior citizen support and advocacy organization We are Family. * Cresencio S. Arcos – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras (1989–93), deputy assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement (1993–95), and Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for International Affairs (2003–06) * David Berger – 38th commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps *

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– founding president of the

in Washington, D.C. *

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– U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia (2013–present), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs (2009–13), former U.S. Ambassador to

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and the

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(2006–09) *

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– CNN journalist and television news anchor *

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–

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political editor *

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– BBC journalist and presenter * Gayleatha B. Brown – former U.S. Ambassador to

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and current Ambassador designee to

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– current U.S. Ambassador to China, former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, former U.S. Ambassador to

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and Greece * James Cason – former U.S. Ambassador to

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– U.S. diplomat, former ambassador to various countries in

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* Cui Tiankai –

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's ambassador to the United States of America, former vice foreign minister *

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– former Belgian Minister-President of the

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region, former mayor of

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* Anne E. Derse – U.S. Ambassador to

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, SAIS '81 * John Caspar Dreier – former U.S. Ambassador to the

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* Hermann Eilts – former U.S. Ambassador to

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and

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, worked with Egyptian president

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throughout the

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Jessica Einhorn Jessica P. Einhorn served as Dean of Washington's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University from 2001 until 2012. Einhorn succeeded Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned in 2001 to become the U.S. Deputy ...

– former dean of SAIS, member of the board of directors of

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, former director of the

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, and a former managing director of the

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– former U.S. Ambassador to

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and

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* Jeffrey Garten – former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, and former dean of the

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* Timothy F. Geithner – former U.S.

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and president and CEO of the

Federal Reserve Bank of New York The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is one of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks of the United States. It is responsible for the Second District of the Federal Reserve System, which encompasses the State of New York, the 12 northern counties of Ne ...

April Glaspie April Catherine Glaspie (born April 26, 1942) is an American former diplomat and senior member of the Foreign Service, best known for her role in the events leading up to the Gulf War. Early life Glaspie was born in Vancouver, British Col ...

– American diplomat, first woman to be appointed U.S. Ambassador to an Arab country, best known as the U.S. Ambassador to

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

in the runup to the 1991

Gulf War The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key phases: ...

* Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón – U.S. Ambassador to

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas ...

(1994–98) *

Geir H. Haarde Geir Hilmar Haarde (; born 8 April 1951) is an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from 15 June 2006 to 1 February 2009 and as president of the Nordic Council in 1995. Geir was chairman of the Icelandic Independence Pa ...

– former

Prime Minister of Iceland The prime minister of Iceland ( is, Forsætisráðherra Íslands) is Iceland's head of government. The prime minister is appointed formally by the president and exercises executive authority along with the cabinet subject to parliamentary supp ...

(2006–2009) * John J. Hamre – president and CEO of the

Center for Strategic and International Studies The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. CSIS was founded as the Center for Strategic and International Studies of Georgetown University in 1962. The center conducts policy ...

(CSIS), former

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense The deputy secretary of defense (acronym: DepSecDef) is a statutory office () and the second-highest-ranking official in the Department of Defense of the United States of America. The deputy secretary is the principal civilian deputy to the se ...

John E. Herbst John Edward Herbst (born August 12, 1952) is a retired American diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2000 to 2003 and United States Ambassador to Ukraine from September 2003 to May 2006. Education Herbst received ...

– former U.S. Ambassador to

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inva ...

and

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...

, current Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization as a career member of the Senior Foreign Service *

John J. Hicks John J. Hicks was second director of National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC). Hicks was appointed as the Director of NPIC in July 1973, after retirement of Arthur C. Lundahl, first director of NPIC. He served as the Director of NPIC f ...

– intelligence officer, second director of National Photographic Interpretation Center * Melanie Harris Higgins - U.S. Ambassador to

Burundi Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Gr ...

* James Howard Holmes – former U.S. Ambassador to

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

Hans Hoogervorst Johannes Franciscus "Hans" Hoogervorst (born 19 April 1956) is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and economist. He is the former chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) fr ...

– Dutch politician and economist,

Minister of Finance A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", ...

(2002–03), Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport (2003–07) * Tracey Ann Jacobson – former U.S. Ambassador to

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the s ...

and

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

* Colin F. Jackson—former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia; Chairman of the Strategic and Operational Research Department (SORD) at the U.S. Naval War College * Angela Kane – UN Undersecretary General for Management * Malcolm H. Kerr –

American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...

President and Academic, assassinated * Shahal M. Khan – owner of the

Plaza Hotel The Plaza Hotel (also known as The Plaza) is a luxury hotel and condominium apartment building in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is located on the western side of Grand Army Plaza, after which it is named, just west of Fifth Avenue, ...

* Bert Koenders – Dutch politician and diplomat, Minister for Development Cooperation (2007–10),

Minister of Foreign Affairs A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between co ...

(2014–17) *

Andrew Kuchins Andrew Carrigan Kuchins is an American political scientist, academic, and former head of American University of Central Asia. He has held senior positions at several think tanks, including Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Center for ...

– former President of

American University of Central Asia The American University of Central Asia (AUCA) (russian: Американский университет в Центральной Азии; ky, Борбордук Азиядагы Америка Университети), formerly the ''Kyrgyz ...

Bishkek Bishkek ( ky, Бишкек), ), formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chüy Region. The region surrounds the city, although the city itself is not part of ...

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the ea ...

Central Asia Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes the fo ...

and

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-ei ...

expert *

Anthony Kuhn Anthony Kuhn () is the National Public Radio correspondent in Seoul, South Korea. He was previously NPR's correspondent in Beijing, China. Before his roles in South Korea and China, he served as NPR correspondent for Southeast Asia based in Jaka ...

– NPR correspondent in Beijing, China, Hopkins-Nanjing Center Certificate '92 *

Lousewies van der Laan Louse Wies Sija Anne Lilly Berthe "Lousewies" van der Laan (born 18 February 1966) is a retired Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 (D66) party and jurist. Life before politics In her youth, Van der Laan lived in Belgium, Germany, and the Un ...

– Dutch politician and jurist * Frank Lavin – U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, former U.S. Ambassador to

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

Jim Leach James Albert Smith Leach (born October 15, 1942) is an American academic and former politician. He served as ninth Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2009 to 2013 Pogrebin, Robin"Rocco Landesman Confirmed as Chairman of the N ...

– chairman of

National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

, former U.S. Representative from Iowa, former chair of U.S. House of Representatives

Committee on Financial Services The United States House Committee on Financial Services, also referred to as the House Banking Committee and previously known as the Committee on Banking and Currency, is the committee of the United States House of Representatives that oversees t ...

, former faculty and trustee at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

* Lee Tae-sik – former

Republic of Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its ea ...

's ambassador to the United States * Samuel W. Lewis – former U.S. Ambassador to

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

and U.S. Ambassador at the Camp David Accord talks in 1978 * Dennis P. Lockhart – president and CEO of the

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, (informally referred to as the Atlanta Fed and the Bank), is the sixth district of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks of the United States and is headquartered in midtown Atlanta, Georgia. The Atlanta Fed cover ...

* Gabriel Silva Luján – Colombia's twice ambassador to the United States, and Minister of Defence *

Edward Luttwak Edward Nicolae Luttwak (born 4 November 1942) is an American author known for his works on grand strategy, military strategy, geoeconomics, military history, and international relations. He is best known for being the author of '' Coup d'Ét ...

– political scientist and military historian, author of '' Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook'' * Peter Magowan – former owner of the

San Francisco Giants The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco, California. The Giants compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Founded in 1883 as the New Yo ...

and former CEO of

Safeway Safeway is an American supermarket chain founded by Marion Barton Skaggs in April 1915 in American Falls, Idaho. The chain provides grocery items, food and general merchandise and features a variety of specialty departments, such as bakery, del ...

(attended SAIS, but did not earn degree) *

Sir David Manning Sir David Geoffrey Manning, (born 5 December 1949) is a former British diplomat, who was the British Ambassador to the United States from 2003 to 2007. He authored the so-called " Manning Memo", that summarized the details of a meeting between ...

–

British Ambassador to Israel The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Israel is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Israel, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Israel. The official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Stat ...

(1995–1998), Foreign Policy Adviser to former British prime minister

Tony Blair Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of t ...

(2001–2003), British Ambassador to the United States (2003–2007) *

John E. McLaughlin John Edward McLaughlin (born June 15, 1942) is an American intelligence official who served as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and briefly as acting Director of Central Intelligence. He currently serves as a Senior Fellow and Distinguishe ...

– former Deputy

Director of Central Intelligence The director of central intelligence (DCI) was the head of the American Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 2005, acting as the principal intelligence advisor to the president of the United States and the United States National Security C ...

* Christopher Meyer – British ambassador to the United States during the Second Gulf War * Ana Belen Montes – spy for

Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribb ...

working at the

Defense Intelligence Agency The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is an intelligence agency and combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense, specializing in defense and military intelligence. A component of the Department of Defense (DoD) and the ...

and arrested in 2001 *

Thant Myint-U Thant Myint-U ( my, သန့်မြင့်ဦး ; born 31 January 1966) is an American-born Burmese historian, writer, grandson of former United Nations Secretary-General U Thant, former UN official, and former special adviser to the p ...

– Burmese historian, writer, grandson of former

Secretary-General of the United Nations The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or SG) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. The role of the secretary-g ...

U Thant Thant (; ; January 22, 1909 – November 25, 1974), known honorifically as U Thant (), was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first non-Scandinavian to hold the position. He held t ...

Loretta Napoleoni Loretta Napoleoni (born 1955) is an Italian journalist and political analyst. She reports on the financing of terrorism, connected finance, and security related topics. Early life and education Napoleoni was born in Rome in 1955. She studied at ...

– bestselling author of ''Terror Incorporated'' and ''Insurgent Iraq''. She is an expert on financing of terrorism and advises several governments on counter-terrorism * Pat O'Brien – television personality * John E. Osborn – former commissioner, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy; affiliate faculty in law and international studies,

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seatt ...

; senior executive with life sciences companies

Cephalon Cephalon, Inc. was an American biopharmaceutical company co-founded in 1987 by pharmacologist Frank Baldino, Jr., neuroscientist Michael Lewis, and organic chemist James C. Kauer—all three former scientists with the DuPont Company. Baldino s ...

and Onyx Pharmaceuticals *

Ted Osius Theodore George Osius III (born 1961) is an American diplomat and the former United States Ambassador to Vietnam. Early life and education Osius grew up in Annapolis, Maryland. He attended The Putney School in Vermont, graduating in 1979. Osiu ...

– former U.S. Ambassador to

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making ...

(2014-2017) *

Suyoi Osman Suyoi bin Osman (; born 15 February 1952) is a Bruneian politician who was Minister of Education in the Cabinet of Brunei from 2015 to 2018. Education He was educated at the University of East Anglia (BA Development Studies, 1975), the Unive ...

– Bruneian health minister * Ronald D. Palmer – former U.S. Ambassador to

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federal constitutional monarchy consists of thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Mal ...

Gerhard Pfanzelter Gerhard Pfanzelter (born 1943) is an Austrian diplomat. He served as the Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations between 7 September 1999 and November 2008. In 2000 he served as Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council ...

– secretary general of the CEI, former permanent representative of

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

to the UN, Ambassador of Austria to

Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...

Gambia The Gambia,, ff, Gammbi, ar, غامبيا officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa. It is the smallest country within mainland AfricaHoare, Ben. (2002) ''The Kingfisher A-Z Encyclopedia'', Kingfisher Publicatio ...

Cape Verde , national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym ...

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau ( ; pt, Guiné-Bissau; ff, italic=no, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫 𞤄𞤭𞤧𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮, Gine-Bisaawo, script=Adlm; Mandinka: ''Gine-Bisawo''), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau ( pt, República da Guiné-Bissau, links=no ) ...

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Ma ...

and

Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...

* Nicholas Platt – former U.S. Ambassador to

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

, and

Zambia Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most central point. Its neighbours are t ...

; former president of the

Asia Society The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States (Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco) and around the world (Hong Kong, Ma ...

* Danielle Pletka – senior vice president of the

American Enterprise Institute The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, known simply as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), is a center-right Washington, D.C.–based think tank that researches government, politics, economics, and social welfare. A ...

for Foreign and Defense Studies and former member of Senate Foreign Relations Committee * Slater Rhea – singer and TV personality in China, Hopkins-Nanjing Center MAIS '17 * Charles P. Ries – U.S. Minister for Economic Affairs and Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq (2007–08), U.S. Ambassador to Greece (2004–07) * Marcie Berman Ries – former U.S. Ambassador to Albania, former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria * Jauhar Saleem – Pakistani diplomat * Arturo Sarukhán –

Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the so ...

's ambassador to the United States * David Shear – former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam (2011–2014) * Kevin Sieff – Africa bureau chief at ''

The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large n ...

'', former Afghanistan bureau chief (2012–14) * Bandar bin Sultan –

's former ambassador to the United States *

Levi Tillemann Levi Mills Tillemann-Dick (born November 25, 1981) is an American businessman, academic, and author. Currently managing partner at Valence Strategic, LLC and a fellow at the New America Foundation, he is also the author of the 2015 book, ''The Gre ...

– advisor to the Department of Energy, author * Michael G. Vickers – Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence,

Department of Defense Department of Defence or Department of Defense may refer to: Current departments of defence * Department of Defence (Australia) * Department of National Defence (Canada) * Department of Defence (Ireland) * Department of National Defense (Philipp ...

* Joris Voorhoeve – Dutch politician, diplomat and political scientist, Minister of Defence (1994–98) * Jacob Walles – U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia (2012–2015), U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem (2005–2009) *

Wang Guangya Wang Guangya (born March 1950; ) is a Chinese diplomat who is the former Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. A career diplomat, Wang was previously Vice Minister of Foreign ...

–

's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the

* Juleanna Glover Weiss – political consultant and lobbyist * Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. – former

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State The deputy secretary of state of the United States is the principal deputy to the secretary of state. The current deputy secretary of state is Wendy Ruth Sherman, serving since April 2021 under secretary of state Antony Blinken. If the secreta ...

* Jody Williams –

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolo ...

recipient for her leadership of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines * Lois Wolk – member of the

California State Senate The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature, the lower house being the California State Assembly. The State Senate convenes, along with the State Assembly, at the California State Capitol in Sacramento. D ...

* Cara Elizabeth Yar Khan – disability advocate, public speaker and United Nations humanitarian

Past and present faculty

* Fouad Ajami – professor of Middle Eastern studies * Lucius D. Battle – former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and Africa, and president, Middle East Institute; founded SAIS Foreign Policy Institute *

Peter Bergen Peter Bergen (born December 11, 1962) is an American journalist, author, and producer who serves as CNN's national security analyst and as New America's vice president. He produced the first television interview with Osama bin Laden in 1997, w ...

– CNN

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

analyst and author of ''Holy War, Inc'' *

Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński ( , ; March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017), or Zbig, was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter' ...

– former

National Security Advisor A national security advisor serves as the chief advisor to a national government on matters of security. The advisor is not usually a member of the government's cabinet but is usually a member of various military or security councils. National sec ...

to President

Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he previously served as th ...

* Edward B. Burling – partner of the law firm

Covington & Burling Covington & Burling LLP is an American multinational law firm. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the firm advises clients on transactional, litigation, regulatory, and public policy matters. In 2021, Vault.com ranked Covington & Burling as ...

David P. Calleo David P. Calleo is an American political scientist, based at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he holds the titles of Dean Acheson Professor and University Professor. He served as director of the SAIS Eur ...

– former director of European Studies Program, author of ''Rethinking Europe's Future'' *

Rajiv Chandrasekaran Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an American journalist. He is a senior correspondent and associate editor at ''The Washington Post'', where he has worked since 1994. Life He grew up mostly in the San Francisco Bay area. He attended Stanford University, w ...

– associate editor,

; former SAIS journalist-in-residence for the

International Reporting Project The International Reporting Project, headquartered at New America, funds independent journalistic coverage of under-reported events around the world. The program was created in 1998 as one of the early examples of the non-profit journalism moveme ...

, author of ''Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone'' *

Eliot A. Cohen Eliot Asher Cohen (born April 3, 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American political scientist. He was a counselor in the United States Department of State under Condoleezza Rice from 2007 to 2009. In 2019, Cohen was named the 9th Dean of t ...

– professor of strategic studies and director of the Strategic Studies Program, former counselor of the U.S.

Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other na ...

, author of ''Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War'' and ''Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime'' * W. Max Corden – trade economist, developed

Dutch disease In economics, the Dutch disease is the apparent causal relationship between the increase in the economic development of a specific sector (for example natural resources) and a decline in other sectors (like the manufacturing sector or agricult ...

model *

Francis Deng Francis Mading Deng is a politician and diplomat from South Sudan who served as the newly independent country's first ambassador to the United Nations from 2012 to July 2016. Life and career Deng was educated at Khartoum University (Bachelor of ...

– former representative of the

UN Secretary-General The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or SG) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. The role of the secretary- ...

on Internally Displaced Persons *

Luis Ernesto Derbez Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista (born April 1, 1947 in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician and rector of the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP). He served as Mexico's Secretary of Economy from 2000 to 2002 and Secretary of Foreign Aff ...

– Mexican minister of finance and foreign affairs * David Dodge – former governor of the

Bank of Canada The Bank of Canada (BoC; french: Banque du Canada) is a Crown corporation and Canada's central bank. Chartered in 1934 under the ''Bank of Canada Act'', it is responsible for formulating Canada's monetary policy,OECD. OECD Economic Surveys: C ...

Eric S. Edelman Eric Steven Edelman (born October 27, 1951) is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2005–2009), U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (2003–2005), U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Finland (1998–2001), and Princip ...

– former U.S.

Under Secretary of Defense for Policy The United States under secretary of defense for policy (USDP) is a high level civilian official in the United States Department of Defense. The under secretary of defense for policy is the principal staff assistant and adviser to both the secr ...

, former U.S. Ambassador to Finland and Turkey, visiting scholar at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies and Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments *

– former dean of SAIS, member of the Board of Directors of

, former director of the

, and a former managing director of the

* Francis Fukuyama – former director of the SAIS International Development program, and author of ''

The End of History and the Last Man ''The End of History and the Last Man'' is a 1992 book of political philosophy by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama which argues that with the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy—which occurred after the Cold War (1945–1991) ...

'' *

Grace Goodell Grace E. Goodell is a retired professor of International Development at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. Goodell received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, where she studied under C ...

– professor of international development * Jakub J. Grygiel – George H. W. Bush Assistant Professor of International Relations *

– former U.S. Secretary of State and

Governor of Massachusetts The governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the chief executive officer of the government of Massachusetts. The governor is the head of the state cabinet and the commander-in-chief of the commonwealth's military forces. Massachuset ...

Josef Joffe Josef Joffe (born 15 March 1944) is a former publisher-editor of '' Die Zeit'', a weekly German newspaper. His second career has been in academia. Appointed Senior Fellow of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies in 2007 (a ...

– German journalist * Mara Karlin - assistant secretary of defense for strategy, plans, and capabilities *

Majid Khadduri Majid Khadduri (Arabic: مجيد خدوري) (September 27, 1909 – January 25, 2007) was an Iraqi–born academic. He was founder of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Middle East Studies program, a division of John ...

– professor of Islamic law and Middle East specialist * Kenneth H. Keller – former director of the SAIS Bologna Center, former president of the University of Minnesota system * Pravin Krishna – Chung Ju Yung Professor of International Economics and Business *

Cornelius C. (Neil) Kubler Cornelius C. Kubler (also known as Neil Kubler) is an academic in the disciplines of Chinese Linguistics and Chinese Language Pedagogy, an expert in Chinese dialects, and a polyglot who speaks twelve languages including English language, English ...

– former American co-director of the Hopkins–Nanjing Center. * Anne O. Krueger – professor of international economics, former first deputy managing director of the

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and World Bank Chief Economist; former president,

American Economic Association The American Economic Association (AEA) is a learned society in the field of economics. It publishes several peer-reviewed journals acknowledged in business and academia. There are some 23,000 members. History and Constitution The AEA was esta ...

– former President of

and

expert. * David M. Lampton – George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, Director of the China Studies Program, and former dean of faculty *

Paul Linebarger Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966), better known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith, was an American author known for his science fiction works. Linebarger was a US Army officer, a noted East Asia scholar, and a ...

– former professor of Asian studies, best known as a

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...

author under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith * Marisa Lino – former director of the SAIS Bologna Center, former U.S.

Ambassador An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or s ...

to Albania, and former assistant secretary for international affairs at the U.S.

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Michael Mandelbaum Michael Mandelbaum (born 1946) is a professor and director of the American Foreign Policy program at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He has written a number of books on American foreign policy and edited ...

– professor of American foreign policy *

– former deputy director of the

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, Senior Fellow at the

* Robert H. Mundell –

Nobel Prize in Economics The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...

laureate, 1999 * Kendall Myers – former U.S. Foreign Service Officer and SAIS part-time faculty member who was arrested in 2009 on charges of 30 years of espionage on behalf of Cuba * Azar Nafisi – Iranian-American academic and author of ''

Reading Lolita in Tehran ''Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books'' is a book by Iranian author and professor Azar Nafisi. Published in 2003, it was on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list for over one hundred weeks and has been translated into 32 languages. Plo ...

'' and " Things I've Been Silent About" *

– drafter of

NSC 68 United States Objectives and Programs for National Security, better known as NSC68, was a 66-page top secret National Security Council (NSC) policy paper drafted by the Department of State and Department of Defense and presented to President Har ...

modifying the U.S.

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strategy of

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from a primarily economic and diplomatic strategy to one based more fully on military confrontation *

Don Oberdorfer Donald Oberdorfer Jr. (May 28, 1931 – July 23, 2015) was an American professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University with a specialty in Korea, and was a journalist for 38 years, 25 of t ...

– journalist,

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expert * Robert E. Osgood – third dean of SAIS, former director of the American Foreign Policy program and co-director of the Security Studies program, and former member of the U.S. Secretary of State's Policy Planning Council from 1983 to 1985. *

Henry Paulson Henry Merritt Paulson Jr. (born March 28, 1946) is an American banker and financier who served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2006 to 2009. Prior to his role in the Department of the Treasury, Paulson was the Chairman a ...

– former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, distinguished visiting fellow at the Bernard Schwartz Forum on Constructive Capitalism * Riordan Roett – professor of Latin American studies * Stephen M. Schwebel – former Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Organization at SAIS and former judge and president of the

International Court of Justice The International Court of Justice (ICJ; french: Cour internationale de justice, links=no; ), sometimes known as the World Court, is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN). It settles disputes between states in accordan ...

, currently leading international arbitrator and counsel in Washington, D.C. * András Simonyi – former ambassador of

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to the United States *

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– economist, biographer of

John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, ( ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originally trained in ...

* R. Jeffrey Smith – former journalist-in-residence,

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winner * Stephen Szabo – former professor of European studies, current head of the Transatlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund * Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli – former research professor, former

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and

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senior director for democracy, human rights and international operations * Nate Thayer (Visiting Scholar) – investigative journalist who interviewed

Pol Pot Pol Pot; (born Saloth Sâr;; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian revolutionary, dictator, and politician who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist ...

and Kang Kek Iew * Dale C. Thomson – director of the Center of Canadian Studies, author, Secretary/Advisor to

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, Louis St. Laurent * Robert W. Tucker – former professor of American foreign policy, and co-author of ''The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose'' * David Unger – journalist, member of ''The New York Times'' editorial board, author of ''The Emergency State: America's Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs'' *

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– Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, and Director of the Program in International Law and Organizations; U.S. member of the United Nations

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Paul Wolfowitz Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is an American political scientist and diplomat who served as the 10th President of the World Bank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, and former dean of Johns Hopkins ...

– former president of the

, former U.S. Deputy

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, former dean of SAIS * I. William Zartman – former professor and director of the SAIS Conflict Management program * Alejandro Toledo (visiting scholar) – former president of

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— associate professor of the Practice, known for work on populism

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