Senior fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Former faculty member at Hamilton College and vice president for Academic Affairs at Longwood University; guest professor at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik; was staff director of the Subcommittee on European Affairs of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and senior foreign policy adviser to U.S. Vice President (then-Senator) Joseph Biden; was chief of the European Division at the Library of Congress; served as director of West European studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and deputy director of Aspen Institute Berlin; headed the U.S. delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) 2009 Human Rights Conference in Warsaw, the 2010 OSCE Copenhagen Conference and the 2010 OSCE Vienna Review Conference; was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe’s 1990 Copenhagen conference and a member of the U.S. government delegation to the 2004 inauguration of the president of Serbia; served as OSCE monitor for the first post-war elections in Bosnia; recipient of state decorations from Austria, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Sweden; Author or editor of ten books on European history and international relations; PhD, history, Harvard University.