 Dr. Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. As of July 1, 2010, he is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Dr. Fukuyama is the former director of SAIS's International Development Program. He is also chairman of the editorial board of The American Interest. Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues relating to questions concerning political and economic development. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. It made the bestseller lists in the United States, France, Japan, and Chile, and has been awarded the Los Angeles Times' Book Critics Award in the Current Interest category, as well as the Premio Capri for the Italian edition. He is also the author of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (1995), The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (1999), Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (2002), State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century, (2004), and America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy (2006). He is currently working on a book on political development.
Dr. Fukuyama was born on October 27, 1952. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation from 1979-1980, then again from 1983-89, and from 1995-96. In 1981-82 and in 1989 he was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State, the first time as a regular member specializing in Middle East affairs, and then as Deputy Director for European political-military affairs. In 1981-82 he was also a member of the US delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy. From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. Dr. Fukuyama was a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2005. He holds an honorary doctorate from Connecticut College, Doane College, Doshisha University (Japan), and Kansai University (Japan). He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rand Corporation, of the Board of Governors of the Pardee Rand Graduate School, and of the advisory boards of the Journal of Democracy, the Inter-American Dialogue, The New America Foundation, Evolutionary Psychology, and FINCA.He is married to Laura Holmgren and has three children. May 2010
 Dr. Roger Leeds
Geographic Areas
Emerging Markets, China | Brazil | Latin America Issues
Regulation of financial markets | private investing in developing nations| foreign direct investment | private equity/venture capital investing in emerging markets; global financial crises | international financial markets | financial regulatory reform | privatization and private sector development | World Bank and International Monetary Fund Roger S. Leeds is a Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University and Director of the School’s Center for International Business and Public Policy. In addition, he served as the founding Chairman of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), a global industry association that is the preeminent source of research and information on private equity in developing countries, and currently is a member of the board of directors. Dr. Leeds also has been an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Business School and the Executive MBA Program at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, teaching courses on private equity investing in emerging markets. Prior to joining the SAIS faculty, Dr. Leeds was an international finance practitioner for 25 years, including positions as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers in New York, a senior staff member of the International Finance Corporation (World Bank), a partner at KPMG in charge of the firm’s global privatization practice, and a managing director focused on emerging markets at a major private equity firm in New York. During his career, he has worked in more than 100 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Dr. Leeds is the author of Financing Small Enterprises in Developing Countries and more than 30 published articles. He has lectured at numerous universities around the world, and been a guest commentator on various radio and television programs, including CNN, Bloomberg News, CBS News, CNBC, and National Public Radio. Dr. Leeds is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations in New York, and has served on numerous boards. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, and his M.A. and PhD from SAIS. Foreign Languages
Portuguese Publications
Financing Small Enterprises in Developing Countries: Lessons Learned From Experience (2003); author of more than 30 articles and book chapters on international financial and economic issues in developing countries; currently writing a book on private equity in emerging markets | 
