Faculty for Alumni College 2008
Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns is the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, one of the Department of State’s highest-ranking officials. As a career foreign service officer, he has served in numerous positions including as the U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO and as U.S. Ambassador to Greece. He also was senior director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia Affairs under President Clinton and director for Soviet Affairs under President George H.W. Bush. Ambassador Burns earned his M.A. from SAIS in 1980.
Professor Chester A. Crocker is the James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies at Georgetown University where his teaching and research focus on conflict management and regional security issues. He served as U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 1981 to 1989 and as chairman of the board of the United States Institute of Peace from 1992 to 2004. Professor Crocker continues to serve on the board of teh United States Institute of Peace as well as on the boards of ASA Ltd., Universal Corporation, Inc., Good Governance Group Ltd; and First Africa Holdings Ltd.
Former U.S. Representative Jim Leach served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Iowa’s 2nd District for 15 terms, from 1977 to 2007. Before his election to Congress, he was a foreign service officer, a member of the U.S. delegations to the Geneva Disarmament Conference and the United Nations General Assembly, a business executive and a director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. He recently joined Harvard University as the Director of the Institute of Politics.
 Dr. Edward Morse serves as Managing Director and Chief Energy Economist at Lehman Brothers. He previously served as Executive Advisor at Hess Energy Trading Co., LLC, worked in management at Phillips Petroleum Company, was a co-founder of the Petroleum Finance Company and was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Energy Policy during the Carter Administration. He currently chairs the New York Energy Forum and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Oxford Energy Club. Dr. Morse spent more than a decade as publisher of Petroleum Intelligence Weekly and other industry newsletters and is a frequent commentator on oil market trends. His publications include a number of books and dozens of articles on politics, finance, energy and international affairs.
 Roger Leeds is a Research Professor of International Finance and Director of the SAIS Center for International Business and Public Policy. His areas of expertise include Latin America, Brazil, corporate governance and financial markets, corruption and transnational crime, economics, foreign aid and global poverty, and privatization and private-sector development. Leeds spent 25 years as a practitioner in international finance. He was a partner at KPMG in charge of its global privatization practice and a managing director of a major private equity firm in New York. He has been a guest commentator on CBS, CNBC News, CNN and NPR, and is also the author of Financing Small Enterprises in Developing Countries: Lessons Learned From Experience (2003) as well as more than 25 articles and book chapters on international financial and economic issues in developing countries. Professor leeds will also be teaching a class during Alumni College.
 Francis Fukuyama is the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the International Development Program. His areas of expertise include governance and political institutions in development, democratic theory and practice, and international regulation of science and technology. Fukuyama served as SAIS dean of faculty from 2002 to 2004 and twice served as a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State. His publications include America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy (2006) and State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (2004).
Mary R. Habeck is an Associate Professor of Strategic Studies. Her areas of expertise include American defense policy; Islamic religion, culture and law; military history; military power and strategy and terrorism. She has served as associate professor of history at Yale University and coordinated the Yale Russian Archive Project to facilitate access to documents in the former Soviet archives. Habeck’s recent publications include Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror (2006) and Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919–1939 (2003).
David M. Lampton is the Dean of Faculty, George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies and Director of the China Studies Program. His areas of expertise include East Asia, China and Taiwan. He served as former president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He is past director of China Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and, subsequently, at The Nixon Center in Washington, D.C. His publications include (forthcoming) and (2001).
 Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy and Director of the American Foreign Policy Program. His areas of expertise include Western Europe, American-foreign policy, NATO, and U.S. Congress and foreign policy. Mandelbaum has been a former faculty member at Harvard University, Columbia University and the U.S. Naval Academy. Recent publications include Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government (2007) and The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World’s Government in the 21st Century (2006).
 John McLaughlin is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Studies. His areas of expertise include American defense policy, counterterrorism, intelligence, nuclear policy and proliferation, strategic and security issues and weapons of mass destruction. McLaughlin most recently served as acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency from July to September 2004 and previously was the agency’s deputy director from October 2000. Prior to that, he was deputy director for Intelligence, vice chairman for Estimates and acting chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and founder of the Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis.
 Riordan Roett is the Sarita and Don Johnston Professor and Director of Western Hemisphere Studies and the Latin American Studies Program. His areas of expertise include developing nations, international political economy, NAFTA and political risk analysis. He is a member of the board of directors of a number of closed-end mutual funds managed by Western Asset Management/Legg Mason LLC in New York and a consultant to the National Intelligence Council. His publications include China's Expansion into the Western Hemisphere: Policy Implications, co-author and editor, (forthcoming), and The Andes in Focus: Security, Democracy and Economic Reform, co-author, co-editor (2005).
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