FLETCHER - Key Persons
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- Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
- Professor of the Practice of International Security
- Professor of the Practice of International Security / Associate Dean of Curriculum
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- Professor of the Practice of International Politics
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- Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
- Associate Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs
Biography
Adam J Herman is the Associate Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Adam has more than 15 years of experience helping students use educational opportunities to achieve their professional goals. As associate dean of admissions and student affairs he nurtures and guides teams focused on delivering a high-quality experience to prospective and current students at Fletcher, with a portfolio that includes the Offices of Admissions, Registrar and Academic Advising, Student Affairs, and Career Services.
Prior to joining Fletcher in October 2023, Adam held undergraduate and graduate program leadership roles at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business in Houston (2020-2023) and Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in Bloomington (2009-2019). Passionate about building connections with students, Adam has facilitated immersive educational programs in Chicago, Atlanta, Silicon Valley, Ireland, South Africa, Colombia, Panamá, and Costa Rica. He has previously taught courses in business communication, competitive strategy, and strategic enrollment management.
Adam grew up in New Orleans and holds a doctorate in higher education administration from Indiana University Bloomington, a master's degree in educational leadership from Eastern Michigan University, and a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University.
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- Associate Professor of One Health Diplomacy
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- Assistant
- Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
- Assistant Dean, Diversity & Inclusion
Biography
Adrian T. Thomas, Fletcher's Assistant Dean for Diversity & Inclusion, oversees the vision, priorities, and direction of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at all levels of The Fletcher School.
Drawing on nearly two decades of experience, Thomas also leads the strategic planning for community-wide programming to identify and address issues, concerns, and gaps related to the Fletcher DEI experience.
She joined Fletcher in 2020 from Purdue University, where she held several positions with responsibilities ranging from leading design and implementation of faculty and student diversity recruitment and retention efforts to providing strategic counsel regarding DEI issues to administrators, faculty, and staff.
Prior to Purdue, Thomas worked for Indiana University Kokomo, where she designed, implemented, and managed university diversity and inclusion programs and initiatives. She also held several instructional and research-based roles in the university setting.
Thomas received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Cleveland State University; a Master of Arts in Psychology from Southern Louisiana University; and a Master of Science in Education, Educational Psychology from Purdue University.
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2024
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- Executive Director, World Peace Foundation
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- Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2024
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- Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Policy
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- Global Master of Arts Program ( GMAP ), 2023
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- Global Master of Arts Program ( GMAP ), 2021
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- Thomas Schmidheiny Professor in International Business Emeritus
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
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- Assistant Professor of Political Science
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
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- Global Master of Arts Program ( GMAP ), 2023
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- Professor of Marketing and International Business
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- Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
- Dean of Global Business / Executive Director, Institute for Business in the Global Context
- Dean of Global Business / Professor of the Practice / Executive Director, Institute for Business in the Global Context
- Dean of Global Business at the Fletcher School
Bhaskar Chakravorti is the Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University - America's oldest exclusively graduate school of global affairs - the founding Executive Director of Fletcher's Institute for Business in the Global Context and founder and chair of Digital Planet, one of Fletcher's flagship research programs that studies the impact of technology on lives and livelihoods around the world.
Bhaskar founded the Institute in 2011 with the mission of "connecting the world of business with the world," exploring issues at the intersection of business and global context, including geopolitics, technology, security, development, the environment and the human condition. Bhaskar serves on the Fletcher faculty as Professor of the Practice of International Business and is the Chair of the IDEA Council: Imagining a Digital Economy for All. He is the Chairman of the Advisory Board to the Mastercard Policy Center for the Digital Economy, served on the Global Future Council on Innovation for the World Economic Forum and is Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Senior Advisor for Digital Inclusion at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, an Advisory Board member for the Indian Institute of Public Policy and served on the Advisory Board of the UNDP's Center for Private Sector in Development. Bhaskar has also founded and chairs the Digital Planet initiative at The Fletcher School, that follows the evolution of 90 countries as they transition from traditional to digitally intensive economies. Most recently, as part of this initiative, he has launched a multi-year initiative, Imagining a Digital Economy for All, IDEA 2030, which is investigating the role of data, digital technologies, artificial intelligence and applications as a force for inclusive growth, development and productivity. The first year of the research is entirely devoted to the study of the world operating by digital means during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also started the first all-digital degree program at Tufts and Fletcher.
Prior to joining Fletcher, Bhaskar was a Partner of McKinsey & Company, a Distinguished Scholar at MIT's Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship and on the faculty of Harvard Business School and Harvard University Center for the Environment. He was a leader of McKinsey's Innovation and Global Forces practices, served on its Knowledge Services Committee and taught innovation and entrepreneurship at Harvard. In a 30 year career, he has been an advisor to CEOs, senior management and Boards of over 30 companies in the Fortune 500 and policymakers at national and international organizations and worked across the Americas, EU, Asia and Africa, and multiple industries. He is the author of the Amazon best-selling book, "The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World" (Harvard Business Press) and is the creator of the widely-used Digital Evolution Index. His papers and articles appear in top-tier academic journals, multiple books and in widely-read media, e.g., Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, CNN, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Bloomberg, Businessweek, Barron's, The Hill, Salon, Fast Company among many others. He was a former columnist on innovation for the Washington Post and Forbes and currently has regular columns in Harvard Business Review, the Indian Express, Foreign Policy, WIRED and The Conversation; he is regularly interviewed by the press, and has appeared in a wide variety of leading media, including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, National Public Radio, BBC, The Economist, MarketWatch, WIRED, CNBC, CBC, CCTV, Times of London, Al Jazeera, Economic Times, Times of India, among many others.
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- Research Director
- Research Director / Research Associate Professor
- Research Director of the World Peace Foundation
Bridget Conley is the Research Director of the World Peace Foundation (WPF) and Associate Research Professor at The Fletcher School. At WPF, she is the lead researcher on the Mass Atrocities program. Her current research focuses on memory following mass atrocities, and has produced a book, Memory from the Margins: Ethiopia's Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum (Palgrave 2019). She is the editor of How Mass Atrocities End: Studies from Guatemala, Burundi, Indonesia, the Sudans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq (Cambridge University Press 2016). She has published on issues related to the 1992 - 1995 war in Bosnia, mass atrocities and genocide, and how museums can engage on human rights issues. She previously worked as Research Director for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience, where she led the Museum's research and projects on contemporary threats of genocide, including curating an exhibition, From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide Today. She received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Binghamton University in 2001.
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- Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy
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- Senior Lecturer of International Communications and Technology Policy
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- Associate Professor of International Economics
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- Professor of the Practice of International Law
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2024
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- Professor of the Practice of International Human Rights Law
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- Senior Lecturer in International Law
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- Master of Laws in International Law ( LLM ), 2023
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- Professor of International History
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2022
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- Chairman of Hellenic and European Studies
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- Henry J. Leir Professor
- Professor
- Professor, Feinstein International Center, Friedman
Daniel Maxwell is the Henry J. Leir Professor in Food Security and Research Director at the Feinstein International Center, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. He leads the research program on food security and livelihoods in complex emergencies. In 2016-2017, he served as the Acting Director of the Feinstein Center. His recent research focuses on the re-emergence of famines in the 21st century and the politics of analyzing and declaring famine; food security and resilience programming and measurement, and livelihood systems under stress; as well as the localization of humanitarian action.
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- Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
- Distinguished Professor of International Politics
- Distinguished Professor of International Politics / Professor of International Politics
- Professor of International Politics
Daniel W. Drezner is Professor of International Politics, a nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the co-director of Fletcher's Russia and Eurasia Program. Prior to joining The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University. Drezner has written seven books, including All Politics is Global and Theories of International Politics and Zombies, and edited three others, including The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence. He has published articles in numerous scholarly journals as well as in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Politico, and Foreign Affairs, and has been a regular contributor to Foreign Policy and the Washington Post. He received his B.A. in political economy from Williams College and an M.A. in economics and PhD in political science from Stanford University.
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2024
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- Assistant Professor of Security Studies
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- Dean Emerita, Cummings School & Senior Fellow, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering
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- Professor of the Practice in International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
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- Associate Dean for Programs and Administration
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- Executive Director of the Edward R. Murrow Center and As Senior Fellow of Diplomatic Practice in the Center
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- Professor of the Practice of Global Consulting
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- Professor of the Practice of International Conflict Management
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- Associate Professor of History
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Negotiations
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- Research Associate Professor
Education
PhD, International Relations, Tufts University, Medford, United States, 2014
MPA, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, United States, 2002
MM, Flute Performance, Appalachian State University, Boone, United States, 2000
BA, Geology and Environmental Science, Rice University, Houston, United States, 1995
Biography
Elke Jahns-Harms, Lecturer in Human Security, has worked in Central and South America, East Africa, and Antarctica, on projects related to financial inclusion, sustainable agriculture, climate change, HIV/AIDS, women's rights, and environmental education. She is the Fletcher Faculty Director for the certificate programs in digital money offered in partnership with the Digital Frontiers Institute, and a Senior Fellow on Fletcher's Council of Emerging Market Enterprises. Previously, she worked with Catholic Relief Services, the Peace Corps, and WorldTeach. Her research examines the role of savings groups in helping poor rural households cope with shocks, and the impact of climate change on those households. A lifelong musician, she is also interested how the arts can promote social justice, development and peacebuilding. She teaches Development Aid in Policy and Practice at Fletcher, a number of courses at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Tufts University, and recently taught Music and Social Change at the New England Conservatory in Boston. She holds a PhD in International Relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a Master of Public Affairs, a Master of Music, and a BA in Geology and Environmental Science.
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- Master of International Business ( MIB ), 2021
For aspiring entrepreneur Emmanuel Gebremeskel, F21, an opportunity to consult for PayPal as part of a Fletcher class led to an internship-and now a job after graduation. With a Master of International Business (MIB) degree and experience at a multinational company, the Ethiopian-born Gebremeskel ultimately plans to return home and launch his own startup. He shares how he hopes to make a difference in sub-Saharan Africa, the unique opportunity at PayPal, and the best part of the Fletcher network.
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- Master of Arts ( MA ), 2023
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- Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
With expertise across fields-from business to law and policy-they lend their insights and global perspectives to advance Fletcher's mission and reputation.
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
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- Master of Arts in Transatlantic Affairs ( MATA ), 2023
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- Part - Time Senior Lecturer
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- Assistant
- Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
- Assistant Dean for Professional Education
Biography
Dr. Hilary Price serves as Assistant Dean for Professional Education at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she leads strategy and operations of mid-career education at Fletcher. She launched and now oversees Fletcher Executive Education, a full-service education design and programming office that connects public and private sector organizations with Fletcher faculty for custom training experiences. She also oversees the Global Master of Arts Program (GMAP), Fletcher's preeminent hybrid graduate program for mid-career professionals in global leadership positions.
Dr. Price's extensive experience in strategy and oversight of professional training programs includes work with a wide range of partners and stakeholders, including academic institutions, non-profits, governments, and non-governmental organizations. Prior to joining Fletcher, Dr. Price was the chief advancement officer and associate to the Dean of the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University (OSU). While at OSU, she also served as the senior director of corporate and foundation partnerships for the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Dr. Price has worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, managing strategic partnerships and performing national security analysis as an International Security Program fellow. She was also the executive director of public programs at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
In her early career, Dr. Price served as coordinator for the Preventive Defense Project, a joint research venture between Harvard University and Stanford University focusing on U.S. defense policy. She began her career with the National Democratic Institute in Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Dr. Price holds a PhD in International Relations from Oxford University, St. Antony's College, where her doctoral research examined NATO-Russian relations in the post-Cold War era, earning her one of three positions as a research fellow at the Foreign Policy Studies Department Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She earned her BA in Political Science and Russian Studies at Williams College.
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- Professor of International Law
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- Adjunct Professor of International Business
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
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- Visiting Professor of Security Studies
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- Professor of Political Science
- Professor, Political Science, Arts and Sciences / Lecturer
Jeffrey (Jeff) W. Taliaferro is Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. His research and teaching focus on security studies, international relations theory, international history and politics, the grand strategies of the great powers, United States foreign policy, intelligence, cybersecurity and policy. He earned a bachelor's degree in history and political science from Duke University and a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University.
Professor Taliaferro's most recent book is of Defending Frenemies: Alliance Politics and Nonproliferation in US Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2019). He is also the author of Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery (Cornell University Press, 2004), which won the American Political Science Association's Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Award for the Best Book in International History and Politics. Professor Taliaferro is the co-author, with Norrin M. Ripsman and Steven E. Lobell, of Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics (Oxford University Press, 2016). He is also co-editor, along with Steven E. Lobell and Norrin P. Ripsman, of Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and of The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2012). His articles have appeared in the journals International Security, Security Studies, International Studies Review, and Political Psychology. He has also contributed chapters to several edited volumes.
Professor Taliaferro has served on the editorial board of The Review of International Studies (2010-2016), the Director of the CIA's Historical Review Board (2008-2018), and the Steering Committee for Decadal Survey for Social and Behavioral Sciences for Application to National Security at the National Academy of Sciences (2017-2019). He currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals International Security, Security Studies, and International Politics. Previously, he served on the editorial boards of the journals Review of International Studies (RIS) and International Studies Review (RIS).
Professor Taliaferro held a research fellowship at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway in summer 2016 and a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC in AY 2017-2018. His current research project is an examination of how the United States and its allies negotiate crises of change in their security partnerships.
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2024
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- Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2021
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- Master of Global Business Administration ( GBA ), 2024
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- Distinguished Professor Emeritus
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- Professor of Policy and International
Jette Steen Knudsen is Professor of Policy and International Business and holds the Shelby Collum Davis Chair in Sustainability. She is also a Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) with the Center for Corporate Governance and she is affiliated with the CBS Center for Sustainability. Jette has served as President of the Tufts University Faculty Senate 2021-2024. Her research centers on the interface between government regulation and business actions with a particular focus on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). She studies the ability of governments in economically advanced industrialized nations to promote social change through regulation of social practices of home country multinationals in developing countries. She will be a guest-editor of the Journal of Management Studies on governance of sustainability (to be published in 2025) together with Johanna Järvelä, Jean-Pascal Gond, Gregory Jackson and Jeremy Moon. Her 2017 book (with Jeremy Moon) is titled "Visible Hands: Government Regulation of Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Business" (Cambridge University Press, November 2017). She has published in journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Business and Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Policy and Politics, Political Studies and Regulation and Governance. Knudsens consults on the governance of sustainability for leading companies and international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank. She also contributes to CBS's program on supervisory board management with a focus on sustainability. From 2003-2007 Knudsen headed a government-sponsored think tank, The Copenhagen Centre for CSR. She then served as project leader of a CSR task force for the CEO at Maersk, a shipping, oil and retail conglomerate. Knudsen graduated from MIT in 2001 with a PhD in Political Science.
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- Professor of International Law
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- Senior Fellow - Center for Law and International Governance
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- Visiting Professor of International Law
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- Professor of the Practice in Diplomacy
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
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- Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy
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- Adjunct Professor of Development Economics
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- Associate Professor
- Professor, Tisch College, Tisch
Karen Jacobsen is the Henry J. Leir Professor in Global Migration at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University,. Professor Jacobsen's current research explores urban displacement and global migration, with a focus on the livelihoods and financial resilience of migrants and refugees, and on climate- and environment-related mobility. She directs the Refugees in Towns Project at the Leir Institute for Migration and Human Security. In 2013-2014, she was on leave from Tufts, leading the Joint IDP Profiling Service (JIPS) at United Nations in Geneva. From 2000-2005, she directed the Alchemy Project, which explored the use of microfinance to support people in refugee camps.
Prof. Jacobsen's Ph.D. in Political Science is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her areas of expertise include refugee and migration issues, humanitarian assistance in developing countries, urban impact, and climate change and migration. She is currently at work on a book that examines the impact of displacement on cities. Her previous books include: Handbook of Forced Migration (Edward Elgar, 2023); A View from Below: Conducting Research in Conflict Zones (with Mazurana and Gale, Cambridge UP 2013 ); and The Economic Life of Refugees (Lynne Rienner, 2005). She consults and works closely with UNHCR and other UN agencies and international NGOs. She is a citizen of both South Africa and the U.S., and splits her time between Brookline, MA and western Maine.
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- Professor of Political Economy
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- Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
- Dean / Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy
- Professor of Energy & Environmental Policy
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- Professor of the Practice
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- Lecturer in Human Security
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- Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2023
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- Master of Global Business Administration ( GBA ), 2024
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- Professor of the Practice
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- Professor
- Walter B. Wriston Professor of International Finance
Laurent L. Jacque is the Walter B. Wriston Professor of International Finance and Banking. From 2004-2007, he was the Academic Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and engineered the successful launch of the Master of International Business Program. Since 1990 he has also held a secondary appointment at the HEC School of Management (France). He is the author of three books, Management and Control of Foreign Exchange Risk and Management of Foreign Exchange Risk: Theory and Praxis and the newly released, Global Derivative Debacles: from Theory to Malpractice (also available in French, Chinese, and Russian), as well as more than 25 refereed articles on Risk Management, Insurance, and International Finance. He served as an advisor to Wharton Econometrics Forecasting Associates and as a director of Water Technologies Inc. A recipient of four teaching awards at Wharton, Carlson, and HEC, Jacque received the James L. Paddock award in 1996 and the CEMS-HEC award in 2008. He has taught in a number of Executive Development Programs and consulted for several multinational corporations and banks, as well as the IFC (World Bank). A native of France, Jacque graduated from HEC (Paris), taught at the University of Tunis before receiving the M.A., MBA, and PhD degrees from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he taught for eleven years. He is currently involved in research in the area of International Financial Risk, Capital Markets, and Global Strategic Management for Financial Institutions.
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- Associate Dean, Office of Admissions & Student Affairs
Before coming to Fletcher, Dr. Quartana was Senior Associate Director at the Wharton Communication Program for 15 years where he taught communications and public speaking in the MBA program. He was a consultant with Econsult Corporation where he worked on public policy and economic development initiatives. He served as Manager of Organizational Development for the City of Philadelphia, and was Associate Dean of Lifelong Learning at Drexel University. He has published several articles on the measurement of human resources projects in both private and public sector organizations. Dr. Quartana has an undergraduate degree in engineering from Tulane University and a doctorate in Organizational Development from Temple University.
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- Professor of Diplomatic History Emeritus
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- Professor Emerita and Founding Director, the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021 / Founder, Smartt Strategies
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
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- Global Master of Arts Program ( GMAP ), 2023
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- Associate Dean
- Executive
- Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
Biography
As Executive Associate Dean, Maribel oversees all the operations of the Fletcher School including Administration and Finance, Enrollment and Student Services, Communications and Marketing, Executive Education, Events and DEIJ. She is responsible for operationalizing the Dean's vision and ensuring progress towards school-wide goals.
Maribel came to Fletcher from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University where she served as Chief Financial Officer and Director of Administration. In that capacity she was responsible for the active stewardship and efficient management of the financial, IT, human resources, and administrative services of the Center (including pre- and post-award activities for sponsored and gift agreements). She also served as ambassador for the Center, building critical relationships with investors and colleagues across the University.
Previously, Maribel was the Director of Finance and Administration at Boston University Global Programs, where she supported BU's global strategy on global initiatives and projects, with an emphasis on analytics, long-term planning, and compliance. She had primary responsibility for all aspects of Study Abroad's budgets and financial plans, day-to-day operations, and human resources (domestically and abroad). Prior to her work at BU, Maribel spent 11 years at the Harvard University Police Department, where she served as the Associate Director for Administration, Finance, and Human Resources. Before her career in higher education, Maribel taught at the elementary and middle school levels in Lawrence, MA. Maribel earned her B.A. from Boston University, her Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her MBA from Simmons University
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- Master of International Business ( MIB ), 2024
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- Master of Global Business Administration ( GBA ), 2023
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021 / Strategic Planner, Emerging Leader Fellow, US Army
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
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- Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics
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- Assistant Professor of International Environmental Policy
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- Professor of Constitutional and International Law
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- Professor
- Professor of International Economic Affairs
- Professor, Economics, Arts and Sciences
- William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs
Michael W. Klein is the William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs. He served as the Chief Economist in the Office of International Affairs of the United States Department of the Treasury from 2010-2011. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Founder and Executive Editor of EconoFact, a non-partisan website that provides economic analysis on timely policy issues (www.econofact.org). He has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston, New York, San Francisco and Dallas. His research and teaching focus on international macroeconomics. He has published three books and over two dozen articles on topics such as exchange rate policy, international capital flows, the impact of trade on the U.S. labor market, and the determinants of foreign direct investment. His research has been supported by grants from the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He received a PhD in economics from Columbia University and a B.A. from Brandeis University.
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- Senior Fellow
- Expert
- Senior Fellow at the Fletcher School
Mihaela Papa is a Senior Fellow at the Fletcher School, where she has co-founded and led the Rising Power Alliances project and served as faculty in sustainable development and global governance. For more information about the project, please see https://sites.tufts.edu/cierp/rising-power-alliances-project/
Papa is an expert in negotiation strategy and coalition building, with a focus on BRICS and the transition to sustainability. She started her BRICS research as postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Law School and a visiting scholar at Fudan University's Center for BRICS Studies. Her recent publications analyze BRICS convergence and BRICS-US relations (EJIR, 2023), whether BRICS can de-dollarize global finance (CUP 2022 and ISA-West award), and BRICS resilience (Global Policy 2021). Her publications on environmental foreign policy, climate diplomacy, and global governance appeared in Global Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Change, Climate Policy, and other journals. Her commentary was featured in Foreign Affairs and The Conversation, as well as on CNN, Bloomberg, BBC, AP, News24, the South China Morning Post, and other media outlets.
Papa is also an active practitioner with a proven track record advising institutions on global strategies and leading international collaborations and programs, including at MIT and the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She served as a consultant for the U.S. government, the European Commission, and the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Originally a trade economist with a BA from Croatia, she completed her MA in Law and Diplomacy and PhD in International Relations at The Fletcher School, Tufts University.
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
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- Director
- Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
- Academic Dean / Professor of International Politics
- Professor of International Politics
- Professor of International Politics / Director, Center for Strategic Studies
Monica Duffy Toft is Academic Dean and Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Before joining Fletcher, Professor Monica Duffy Toft taught at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. While at Harvard, she directed the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs and was the assistant director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. She was educated at the University of Chicago (MA and Ph.D. in political science) and at the University of California, Santa Barbara (BA in political science and Slavic languages and literature, summa cum laude). Prior to this, she spent four years in the United States Army as a Russian linguist. Monica's areas of research include international security, ethnic and religious violence, civil wars and demography.
Her recent books include: Securing the Peace, (Princeton); Political Demography, (Oxford); and God's Century, (Norton). In addition she has published numerous scholarly articles and editorials on civil wars, territory and nationalism, demography, and religion in global politics. Monica can also be found on Twitter @monicaduffytoft. Affiliations: Monica is a research associate of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is a supernumerary fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, a Global Scholar of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Political Instability Task Force. In 2008 the Carnegie Foundation of New York named her a Carnegie Scholar for her research on religion and violence, in 2012 she was named a Fulbright scholar, and most recently served as the World Politics Fellow at Princeton University.
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
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- Professor of International Affairs and Conflict Studies
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Negotiations
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- Master in Global Affairs ( MGA ), 2023
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- Professor of the Practice
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- Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2023
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- Professor of the Practice
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- Master of Global Business Administration ( GBA ), 2022
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- Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security Studies
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- Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2017
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- Visiting Professor of Statistics
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- Professor of the Practice in Maritime Studies
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2024
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- Assistant Professor of Economics
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- Master of Global Business Administration ( GBA ), 2023
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- Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2024
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- Assistant Professor of International Economic Law
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- Master of Laws in International Law ( LLM ), 2023
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- Global Master of Arts Program ( GMAP ), 2023
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- Professor of International Business
- Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security Studies
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
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- Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
- Senior Director of Development and Alumni Engagement
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- Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2024
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- Master of International Business ( MIB ), 2024
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- Professor of International Economics
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- Associate Professor of International History and Chinese Foreign Relations
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
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- Professor in Cybersecurity and Policy
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- Associate Professor of International Politics and Conflict
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2024
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- Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2020
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- Assistant Professor of Technology Policy
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- Adjunct Senior Lecturer of Strategic Management
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- Thomas Schmidheiny Professor in International Business Emeritus
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- Associate Professor of International Law
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- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
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- Climate Modeling and Policy Director
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- Professor of International Environmental Policy Emeritus
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- Global Master of Arts Program ( GMAP ), 2023