Dr. Kupchan is professor of international affairs in the School of Foreign Service and the Government Department at Georgetown University. He is also Whitney H. Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Kupchan was Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration. Before joining the NSC, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the Policy Planning Staff. Prior to government service, he was an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University.
He is the author of multiple books, including his most recent: No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (2012). He has also authored numerous articles on international and strategic affairs. Dr. Kupchan received a B.A. from Harvard University and M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. He has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Columbia University, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Centre d’Etude et de Recherches Internationales, and the Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo. During 2006-2007, he was the Henry A. Kissinger Scholar at the Library of Congress.