James Goldgeier

James Goldgeier is a visiting senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor of international relations at the School of International Service at American University, where he served as dean from 2011 to 2017. He holds the 2018-19 Library of Congress U.S.-Russia Chair at the John W. Kluge Center. Previously, he was a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, where from 2001 to 2005 he directed the Elliott School’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. He also taught at Cornell University and he has held a number of public policy appointments, including director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs on the National Security Council staff, Whitney Shepardson senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Henry A. Kissinger chair at the Library of Congress, and Edward Teller national fellow at the Hoover Institution. In addition, he has held appointments at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Brookings Institution, and the Center for International Security and Cooperation.