The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a

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based in

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The school also maintains campuses in

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and

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. The school is devoted to the study of

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, and

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

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and

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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 school's DC campus is located in the 420,000-square-foot

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building, which was purchased by the university in 2019 and has undergone extensive renovation. Previously, the school was based on

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at Massachusetts Avenue.

History

The School of Advanced International Studies was established in 1943 by

Paul H. Nitze Paul Henry Nitze (January 16, 1907 – October 19, 2004) was an American businessman and government official 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 ...

and

in 1950. The founders assembled a faculty of scholars and professionals (often borrowed from other universities) to teach international relations,

international economics International economics is concerned with the effects upon economic activity from international differences in productive resources and consumer preferences and the international institutions that affect them. It seeks to explain the patterns an ...

, 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 SAIS Europe, located in Bologna, Italy, is the European campus of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) under Johns Hopkins University. SAIS Europe's degree programs emphasize international economics, international relations, Eu ...

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 a location on Massachusetts Avenue. In 1986, the

Hopkins–Nanjing Center The Hopkins–Nanjing Center (HNC; zh, s=中美中心, p=), formally the Johns Hopkins University–Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies ( zh, s=南京大学—约翰斯·霍普金斯大学中美文化研究中心, p=, c=, t ...

was created in

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, 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

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NW and would remodel the building to house SAIS and other Washington, D.C.-based programs. The school is a member of the

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(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

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, 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

, which teaches courses in both

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and English, is jointly administered by Johns Hopkins SAIS and

Nanjing University Nanjing University (NJU) is a public university in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. It is affiliated and sponsored by the Ministry of Education. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. The univers ...

. 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.

Rankings

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 ''Inside the Ivory Tower'' is a ranking of the world's best university programs in international relations. The ranking is published by the ''Foreign Policy'' magazine in collaboration with the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) Pr ...

" 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

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, 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

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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

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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

University of Virginia School of Law The University of Virginia School of Law (Virginia Law) is the law school of the University of Virginia, a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 as part of his "academical village", and now ...

. 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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at the

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received second place in the first "Global Challenge" competition, a first-of-its-kind competition that challenged teams of

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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 Robert H. Smith School of Business at the

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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

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, 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

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Board Member

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, member of the International Board of Advisors at

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Vali R. Nasr, former

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, former Chair in

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at the

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Vikram Nehru, former Chairperson of the

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Advisory Committee Obiora Okafor, and former

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Frank Stanton Chair in

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Policy Studies

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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

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. 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, Nick Butler, 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

International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, USA, with a regional presence in the United Kingdom, Europe, Turkey, Africa, Canada, Latin America, Caribbean, Southeast Asia, India, Jap ...

(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 The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute or CACI was founded in 1996 by S. Frederick Starr, a research professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. He has served as vice president of Tulane University and as presid ...

* 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 ''The SAIS Review of International Affairs'' is an academic journal of international relations. Founded in 1956, the journal is based at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a graduate school of Johns Hopkins Universi ...

'' – 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 The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C. The school also maintains campuses in Bologna, Bologna, Italy and Nanjing, Nanjing, China. The school is devoted to ...

'') – 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 * SAIS Perspectives – Publication focused on Development, Climate, and Sustainability

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

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for various countries. * Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley – Current Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for The Department of State, former U.S.Ambassador to The Republic of Malta (2012-2016) *

Thomas Bolling Robertson Thomas Bolling Robertson (born 1950) was a career foreign service officer, ambassador, and member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia 2004–2007. President George W. Bush n ...

– former U.S Ambassador to Slovenia, former Dean of the Leadership and Management School of the

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of the Department of State * Thomas Stelzer – Dean and Executive Secretary of the

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(IACA) * Mahamat Ali Adoum – former foreign affairs minister,

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's ambassador to the

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– former Ghanaian diplomat *

Madeleine Albright Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Körbelová, later Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was an American diplomat and political science, political scientist who served as the 64th United States Secretary of State, United S ...

– former

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(attended SAIS, but did not earn degree) * Peter F. Allgeier – deputy U.S. Trade Representative (2001–2009) 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. *

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– U.S. Ambassador to Honduras (1989–1993), deputy assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement (1993–95), and Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for International Affairs (2003–2006) * David Berger – 38th commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps *

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– founding president of the

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in Washington, D.C. * Robert O. Blake, Jr. – U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia (since 2013), 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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(2006–2009) *

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–

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journalist and television news anchor *

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–

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political editor *

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–

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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.

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, former U.S. Ambassador to

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and Greece, member of the Board of Directors of

Harvard Kennedy School The John F. Kennedy School of Government, commonly referred to as Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), is the school of public policy of Harvard University, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Kennedy School offers master's de ...

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs The Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, also known as the Belfer Center, is a research center located at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. From 2 ...

James Cason :: ''For the American football player, see Jim Cason'' James Caldwell Cason (born November 14, 1944) is a retired United States Foreign Service officer, most recently serving as Ambassador to Paraguay, a post he held from 2006 to 2008. Prior to ...

– former U.S. Ambassador to

Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Boli ...

Herman Jay Cohen Herman Jay "Hank" Cohen (born February 10, 1932) is an American diplomat who served as United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1989 to 1993. Career Herman Jay Cohen, born in New York City on February 10, 1932, receive ...

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

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

Cui Tiankai Cui Tiankai (; born October 1952) is a Chinese diplomat and was the longest-serving Chinese Ambassador to the United States, a role he filled from April 2013 to June 2021. Early life and education In 1952, Cui was born in Shanghai, China. He ...

–

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

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

Jean-Maurice Dehousse Jean-Maurice Dehousse (11 October 1936 – 9 February 2023) was a Belgian politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament between 1999 and 2004 as a member of the Parti Socialiste. Dehousse was the first and third Minister-President of W ...

– former Belgian Minister-President of the

Wallonia Wallonia ( ; ; or ), officially the Walloon Region ( ; ), is one of the three communities, regions and language areas of Belgium, regions of Belgium—along with Flemish Region, Flanders and Brussels. Covering the southern portion of the c ...

region, former mayor of

Liège Liège ( ; ; ; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east o ...

Anne E. Derse Anne Elizabeth Derse (born 1954) is an American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2006 to 2009 and Lithuania from 2009 to 2012. Education and personal life Anne E. Derse completed her Bachelor of Arts in French and Lingui ...

– U.S. Ambassador to

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

, SAIS '81 *

John Caspar Dreier John Caspar Dreier (December 27, 1906 – March 10, 1994) was an American diplomat and teacher. He served as United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) between 1951 and 1960. He then taught for a number of years at t ...

– former U.S. Ambassador to the

Organization of American States The Organization of American States (OAS or OEA; ; ; ) is an international organization founded on 30 April 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, the OAS is ...

Hermann Eilts Hermann Frederick Eilts (March 23, 1922 – October 12, 2006) was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat. He served as an American ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, assisted Henry Kissinger's Mideast shuttle diplomacy effort, wo ...

– former U.S. Ambassador to

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries ...

and

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

, worked with Egyptian president

Anwar el-Sadat Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 Oc ...

throughout the

Camp David Accords The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retre ...

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. De ...

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

Time Warner Warner Media, LLC ( doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City. It was established as Time Warne ...

, former director of the

Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank focused on Foreign policy of the United States, U.S. foreign policy and international relations. Founded in 1921, it is an independent and nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit organi ...

, and a former managing director of the

Robert Stephen Ford Robert Stephen Ford (born 1958) is a retired American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Algeria from 2006 to 2008 and the United States Ambassador to Syria from 2011 to 2014. Personal life and education Ford is from Denve ...

– former U.S. Ambassador to

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

and

Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...

* Dennis Francis –

Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean, comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with several List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, smaller i ...

ambassador and President of the United Nations General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session *

Jeffrey Garten Jeffrey E. Garten (born 1946) is an American economist, author, businessman, and former government official who is Dean Emeritus at the Yale School of Management, where he teaches a variety of courses on global economy. From 1996 to 2005 he was ...

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

Yale School of Management The Yale School of Management (also known as Yale SOM) is the graduate school, graduate business school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. The school awards the Master of Business Admi ...

* Timothy F. Geithner – former U.S.

Secretary of the Treasury The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal a ...

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 New York (state), State of New York, the 12 norther ...

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

Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...

in the runup to the 1991

Gulf War , combatant2 = , commander1 = , commander2 = , strength1 = Over 950,000 soldiers3,113 tanks1,800 aircraft2,200 artillery systems , page = https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-PEMD-96- ...

Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón (born September 4, 1942 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) was the United States Ambassador to Chile from 1994-1998. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in July 1994, and was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 4 of ...

– U.S. Ambassador to

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

(1994–1998) * Geir H. Haarde – former

Prime Minister of Iceland The prime minister of Iceland () is head of government of the Republic of Iceland. The prime minister is appointed formally by the president of Iceland, president and exercises executive authority along with the Cabinet of Iceland, cabinet subje ...

(2006–2009) *

John J. Hamre John Julian Hamre (born July 3, 1950) is an American international relations scholar and former senior defense official. He is the president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a position he has held with since 2000. Ea ...

– 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. From its founding in 1962 until 1987, it was an affiliate of Georgetown University, initially named the Center for Strategic and Inte ...

(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 a ...

– former U.S. Ambassador to

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

and

Uzbekistan , image_flag = Flag of Uzbekistan.svg , image_coat = Emblem of Uzbekistan.svg , symbol_type = Emblem of Uzbekistan, Emblem , national_anthem = "State Anthem of Uzbekistan, State Anthem of the Republ ...

, 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 fr ...

– intelligence officer, second director of

National Photographic Interpretation Center The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) to support national ...

Melanie Harris Higgins Melanie Harris Higgins is an American official and diplomat who served as the List of ambassadors of the United States to Burundi, United States ambassador to Burundi from March 2, 2021 to July 13, 2023. Education Higgins earned a Bachelor of ...

– U.S. Ambassador to

Burundi Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is located in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa, with a population of over 14 million peop ...

James Howard Holmes James Howard Holmes (born April 1, 1943, Springfield, Virginia) is an American diplomat. He is the second son of the Rev. Robert Usher and Bertha Jeannette Cook Holmes. He is a 1965 graduate of Colgate University, as well as, a graduate of John ...

– former U.S. Ambassador to

Latvia Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to t ...

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) from ...

– Dutch politician and economist,

Minister of Finance A ministry of finance is a ministry or other government agency in charge of government finance, fiscal policy, and financial regulation. It is headed by a finance minister, an executive or cabinet position . A ministry of finance's portfolio ...

(2002–2003), Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport (2003–2007) *

Tracey Ann Jacobson Tracey Ann Jacobson (born 1965) is an American diplomat who currently serves as the chargé d'affaires of the Embassy of the United States, Dhaka, U.S Embassy in Dhaka. She formerly served as the United States ambassador to Turkmenistan, Tajikist ...

– former U.S. Ambassador to

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ash ...

and

Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...

* 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 Angela Kane (born September 29, 1948) is a German diplomat and was formerly the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and Under-Secretary-General for Management in the United Nations. Education and career Kane was born in Hamelin, Lower ...

– UN Undersecretary General for Management * Malcolm H. Kerr –

American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB; ) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its main campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, autonomous board of trustees and offers programs le ...

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 Albert Gerard Koenders (; born 28 May 1958) is a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2017. He is currently a professor at Leiden University and a special envoy of the World Bank. He i ...

– Dutch politician and diplomat,

Minister for Development Cooperation The Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Aid () is a Minister without Portfolio (Netherlands), minister without portfolio in the Netherlands. The officeholder, who is a member of the Cabinet of the Netherlands, Cabinet and the Council of M ...

(2007–2010),

Minister of Foreign Affairs In many countries, the ministry of foreign affairs (abbreviated as MFA or MOFA) is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy and foreign relations, relations, diplomacy, bilateralism, ...

(2014–2017) * Andrew Kuchins – former President of

American University of Central Asia The American University of Central Asia (AUCA) (; ), formerly the Kyrgyz-American School and the American University in Kyrgyzstan, is a liberal arts university located in Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic. History AUCA began its exis ...

Bishkek Bishkek, formerly known as Pishpek (until 1926), and then Frunze (1926–1991), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chüy Region. Bishkek is situated near the Kazakhstan ...

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains, Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Kyrgyzstan, largest city. Kyrgyz ...

Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian language, Pers ...

and

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

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 Unit ...

– Dutch politician and jurist * Alan Larson (born 1949), diplomat and U.S. Ambassador *

Frank Lavin Franklin L. Lavin (born October 26, 1957) is a former Republican White House aide who was the political director for Ronald Reagan between 1987 and 1989, a United States diplomat, U.S. naval officer, and a bank executive. Early life and education ...

– U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, former U.S. Ambassador to

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

Jim Leach James Albert Smith Leach (October 15, 1942 – December 11, 2024) was an American academic and politician. He served as ninth Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2009 to 2013 and was a member of the U.S. House of Representat ...

– 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 United States congressional committee, committee of the United States ...

, former faculty and trustee at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

Lee Tae-sik Lee Tae-sik (born 26 October 1945) is a South Korean diplomat. Early life and education Lee was born in North Gyeongsang Province and graduated from Seoul National University's Department of International Relations in 1970. Career Lee then jo ...

– former

Republic of Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

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

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

and U.S. Ambassador at the

Camp David Accord The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retrea ...

talks in 1978 * Dennis P. Lockhart – president and CEO of the

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (informally 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 covers the U.S. state ...

* 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'Éta ...

– political scientist and military historian, author of '' Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook'' *

Peter Magowan Peter Alden Magowan (April 5, 1942 – January 27, 2019) was an American businessman. He was the managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball from 1993 to 2008. He was the chief executive officer of Safeway Inc. ...

– former owner of the

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

and former CEO of

Safeway Safeway, Inc. is an American supermarket chain. The chain provides grocery items, food and general merchandise and a variety of specialty departments, such as bakery, delicatessen, floral and pharmacy, as well as Starbucks coffee shops, and veh ...

(attended SAIS, but did not earn degree) * Sir David Manning –

British Ambassador to Israel The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Israel is the United Kingdom's foremost Diplomat, 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 ...

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

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

(2001–2003),

British Ambassador to the United States The British ambassador to the United States is in charge of the British Embassy, Washington, D.C., the United Kingdom's diplomatic mission to the United States. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the United States of A ...

(2003–2007) *

John E. McLaughlin John Edward McLaughlin (born June 15, 1942) is an American intelligence official who was Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and briefly acting Director of Central Intelligence. He is a Senior Fellow and Distinguished Practitioner-in-Reside ...

– former Deputy

Director of Central Intelligence The director of central intelligence (DCI) was the head of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1946 to 2004, acting as the principal intelligence advisor to the president of the United States and the United States National Se ...

Christopher Meyer Sir Christopher John Rome Meyer (22 February 1944 – 27 July 2022) was a British diplomat who served as Ambassador to the United States (1997–2003), Ambassador to Germany (1997), and the chairman of the Press Complaints Commission (2003� ...

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

Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...

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 (DoD) specializing in military intelligence. A component of the Department of Defense and the United States In ...

and arrested in 2001 *

Thant Myint-U Thant Myint-U ( ; born 31 January 1966) is an historian, writer, grandson of former United Nations Secretary-General U Thant, former UN official, former Myanmar peace process mediator, and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has ...

– Burmese historian, writer, grandson of former

Secretary-General of the United Nations The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the United Nations System#Six principal organs, six principal organs of ...

U Thant Thant ( ; 22 January 1909 – 25 November 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 as well as Asian to hold the positio ...

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 ...

– 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 and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...

; senior executive with life sciences companies

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

and

Onyx Pharmaceuticals Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has been a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in South San Francisco, California. The company developed and marketed medicines for the treatment of cancer. Onyx was founded in 1992 by Kevin J. Kinsella and Frank M ...

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. Osi ...

– former U.S. Ambassador to

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

(2014–2017) *

Suyoi Osman Suyoi bin Haji Osman (born 15 February 1952) is a Brunei, Bruneian aristocrat, civil servant and politician who serve as a member of the Legislative Council of Brunei (LegCo) since 2023. He has formerly held office as the List of ambassadors of ...

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

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

* Gerhard Pfanzelter – secretary general of the

CEI CEI may refer to: Organizations * Central European Initiative, a forum of regional cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe * Clean Energy Institute, a renewable energy research institute at the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, ...

, former permanent representative of

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

to the UN, Ambassador of Austria to

Senegal Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t ...

Gambia The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa. Geographically, The Gambia is the List of African countries by area, smallest country in continental Africa; it is surrounded by Senegal on all sides except for ...

Cape Verde Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778. It borders Senegal to Guinea-Bissau–Senegal border, its north and Guinea to Guinea–Guinea-Bissau b ...

Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b ...

and

Mauritania Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to Mauritania–Western Sahara border, the north and northwest, ...

Nicholas Platt Nicholas Platt (born March 10, 1936) is an American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Pakistan, Philippines, Zambia, and as a high level diplomat in Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. He is the former ...

– former U.S. Ambassador to

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

, and

Zambia Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bor ...

; former president of the

Asia Society The Asia Society is a 501(c)(3) organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States (Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle) and around the world (Hong Ko ...

Danielle Pletka Danielle "Dany" Pletka (born June 12, 1963) is an American conservative commentator. She is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank, and the former vice president for foreign and defense policy at AEI. ...

– 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 think tank based in Washington, D.C., that researches government, politics, economics, and social welfare ...

for Foreign and Defense Studies and former member of

Senate Foreign Relations Committee The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is a standing committee of the U.S. Senate charged with leading foreign-policy legislation and debate in the Senate. It is generally responsible for authorizing and overseeing foreign a ...

Slater Rhea Slater David Rhea ( zh, s=帅德, t=; zh, p=Shuài Dé; literally: "Handsome Virtue", born 1987) is an American singer, songwriter and TV personality on national TV in China. Rhea is a performer of Chinese music and has made appearances on China ...

– 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 (2007–2008), U.S. Ambassador to Greece (2004–07) *

Marcie Berman Ries Marcie Berman Ries (born August 25, 1950) is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Bulgaria and United States Ambassador to Albania. Career A specialist in national security issues and arms control, Ries worked as ...

– former U.S. Ambassador to Albania, former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria * Jauhar Saleem –

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diplomat *

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–

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's ambassador to the United States *

David Shear David Bruce Shear (born May 25, 1954) is an American diplomat who was a career Foreign Service Officer. Shear served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs from July 2014 to June 2016. Prior to his nominatio ...

– former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam (2011–2014) *

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– Africa bureau chief at ''

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'', former Afghanistan bureau chief (2012–2014) *

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's former ambassador to the United States * Levi Tillemann – advisor to the Department of Energy, author * Michael G. Vickers – Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence,

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* Joris Voorhoeve – Dutch politician, diplomat and political scientist,

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(1994–1998) *

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– 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 ...

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'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 *

Jody Williams Jody Williams (born October 9, 1950) is an American political activist known for her work in banning anti-personnel landmines, her defense of human rights (especially those of women), and her efforts to promote new understandings of securit ...

–

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recipient for her leadership of the

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– member of the

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

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– Burmese economist, vice governor of the

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, and political prisoner * Bill Grueskin – former Academic Dean at

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, former Managing Editor of WSJ.com (

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)

Past and present faculty

Fouad Ajami Fouad A. Ajami (; September 18, 1945 – June 22, 2014) was a Lebanese-born American professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. He was a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Ajami was an outspoken supporter of the Bus ...

– professor of Middle Eastern studies *

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– 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 *

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terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war aga ...

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

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

– former National Security Advisor (United States), National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter * Edward B. Burling – partner of the law firm Covington & Burling * David P. Calleo – former director of European Studies Program, author of ''Rethinking Europe's Future'' * Rajiv Chandrasekaran – associate editor,

; former SAIS journalist-in-residence for the International Reporting Project, author of ''Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone'' * Eliot A. Cohen – professor of strategic studies and director of the Strategic Studies Program, former counselor of the U.S. Department of State, 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 model * Francis Deng – former representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, UN Secretary-General on internally displaced person, Internally Displaced Persons * Luis Ernesto Derbez – Mexican minister of finance and foreign affairs * David A. Dodge, David Dodge – former governor of the Bank of Canada * Eric S. Edelman – former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 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'' * Grace Goodell – 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 * Josef Joffe – German journalist * Mara Karlin - assistant secretary of defense for strategy, plans, and capabilities * Majid Khadduri – 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 – former American co-director of the

. * Anne O. Krueger – professor of international economics, former first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, IMF and World Bank Chief Economist; former president, American Economic Association * Andrew Kuchins – 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 * Cordwainer Smith, Paul Linebarger – former professor of Asian studies, best known as a science fiction author under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith * Marisa Lino – former director of the SAIS Bologna Center, former U.S. Ambassador (diplomacy), Ambassador to Albania, and former assistant secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security * Michael Mandelbaum – professor of American foreign policy *

– former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution * Robert H. Mundell – Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Nobel Prize in Economics 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'' and "Things I've Been Silent About" *

– drafter of NSC 68 modifying the U.S. Cold War strategy of containment from a primarily economic and diplomatic strategy to one based more fully on military confrontation * Don Oberdorfer – journalist, Korea 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 – 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, currently leading international arbitrator and counsel in Washington, D.C. * András Simonyi – former ambassador of Hungary to the United States * Robert Skidelsky – economist, biographer of John Maynard Keynes * R. Jeffrey Smith – former journalist-in-residence, Pulitzer Prize 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 Special Assistant to the President and United States National Security Council, National Security Council senior director for democracy, human rights and international operations * Nate Thayer (Visiting Scholar) – investigative journalist who interviewed Pol Pot and Kang Kek Iew * Dale C. Thomson – director of the Center of Canadian Studies, author, Secretary/Advisor to Prime Minister of Canada, Canadian Prime Minister, 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), 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'' * Ruth Wedgwood – 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 Human Rights Committee * Paul Wolfowitz – former president of the

, former U.S. Deputy United States Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Defense, former dean of SAIS * I. William Zartman – former professor and director of the SAIS Conflict Management program * Alejandro Toledo (visiting scholar) – former president of Peru * Yascha Mounk – associate professor of the Practice, known for work on populism * Jessica Chen Weiss – Professor of China Studies * Jeremy Lee Wallace – Professor of China Studies

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