Stewart M. Patrick

Senior fellow and director of the program on international institutions and global governance at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Previously he was Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development. He served on the Secretary of State’s policy planning staff (2002-2005) and was research associate at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, where he also taught U.S. foreign policy (1997-2002). He also served as a professional lecturer in international relations/conflict management at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author or co-author of four books and writes the blog “The Internationalist”. His most recent book is Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security. He graduated from Stanford University with a BA in human biology and received his doctorate in international relations, as well as two masters degrees, in international relations and European history, from Oxford University.