Participant Biographies

James M. Lindsay

James M. Lindsay

Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations
US Pivot to Asia

Dr. Lindsay is senior vice president, director of studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg chair at CFR, where he oversees the work of the more than six dozen fellows in CFR’s David Rockefeller Studies Program. He is a leading authority on the American foreign-policymaking process and the domestic politics of American foreign policy. From 2006 to 2009, he was the inaugural director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin, where he held the Tom Slick chair for international affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. From 2003 to 2006, he was vice president, director of studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg chair at CFR. He has also served as deputy director and senior fellow in the foreign policy studies program at the Brookings Institution, and he was a professor of political science at the University of Iowa from 1987 to 1999. During 1996?1997, he was director for global issues and multilateral affairs on the staff of the National Security Council.