 Robert Guttman has a background in politics and foreign policy having worked on several presidential, congressional and gubernatorial campaigns as a staff member. He covered national and international politics for his own publishing firm, Political Profiles, in Washington, D.C. for 12 years. He tried for the nomination for the United States Senate in Indiana in the 1980s and has been a frequent guest on CNN and C-SPAN discussing politics and campaigns. He has worked on the Senate and House sides of Capitol Hill.
He began his career as an international economist for the U.S. Department of Commerce working on trade issues. Guttman also worked at the European Commission for 15 years as the editor of their magazine and traveled regularly to EU countries to conduct interviews with leading political leaders. He is the author of the book Europe in the New Century: Visions of An Emerging Superpower and has written for various publications in Europe and Japan. He helped launch a Russian version of Europe Magazine in Moscow after the fall of the Soviet Union.
He is currently a fellow at Johns Hopkins SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations where he has been since January 2004.
He has been an adjunct professor of politics and foreign policy and the media at The George Washington and American Universities in Washington, D.C.
He is now the editor-in-chief of Transatlantic magazine and is teaching politics and foreign policy classes at Johns Hopkins. He has designed a course on Electoral Politics and Foreign Policy at SAIS. Guttman lectures before World Affairs Councils and other interested groups on foreign policy issues. He has also lectured at several universities in Europe.
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