James B. Steinberg

Dr. James B. Steinberg is the 10th Dean of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he served as University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law at Syracuse University, where he was a Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs for five years. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Secretary of State to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton (2009-2011). From 2005 to 2008, Dr. Steinberg was Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and from 2001 to 2005, he was the vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Steinberg was deputy national security advisor to President Bill Clinton (1996-2000). His most recent books are A Glass Half Full? Rebalance, Reassurance and Resolve and Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the 21st Century (Brookings, 2017). He has also authored Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power (Brookings, 2008) with Kurt Campbell. Dr. Steinberg received his A.B. from Harvard College and his J.D. from Yale Law School.