FLETCHER - Key Persons


Abigail Linnington

Job Titles:
  • Professor of the Practice of International Security
  • Professor of the Practice of International Security / Associate Dean of Curriculum

Abiodun Williams

Job Titles:
  • Professor of the Practice of International Politics

Adam J. Herman

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Adam Kamradt-Scott

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of One Health Diplomacy

Aditya Sarkar

Job Titles:
  • Doctor of Philosophy

Adrian T. Thomas

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Akinobu (Aki) Toyoda

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2024

Alex DeWaal

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, World Peace Foundation

Alex McAuliff

Job Titles:
  • Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2024

Alexander Pascal

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Policy

Alexey Dudarev

Job Titles:
  • Global Master of Arts Program ( GMAP ), 2023

Alicia Perez-Porro

Job Titles:
  • Global Master of Arts Program ( GMAP ), 2021

Alnoor Ebrahim

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
  • Associate Academic Dean, Curriculum / Professor of Management
  • Professor of Management / Professor, Tisch College, Tisch
  • Professor of Management at the Fletcher School
Alnoor Ebrahim is a Professor of Management at The Fletcher School, and the Tisch College of Civic Life, at Tufts University. His research addresses several core dilemmas of social change facing businesses, nonprofit organizations, and public agencies: What strategies should they adopt for delivering and scaling social change? How can they best measure and improve their impacts? How should they handle competing demands for accountability from diverse stakeholders? How can they influence "system" problems such as global poverty that require collective action? Many of these questions are addressed in Professor Ebrahim's book, Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World (Stanford University Press), which has received multiple awards, including from the Financial Times and Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium, and The Alliance for Nonprofit Management. He is also author of the award-winning NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning and is co-editor of Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics (both with Cambridge University Press). Alnoor serves on advisory boards to the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) and the World Bank's Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA). He previously served on an advisory board to IRIS+ at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), a working group established by the G7 to create global guidelines on social impact measurement, on Acumen's Lean Data advisory council, and on the board of Imago Global Grassroots. He has also worked with the NGO Leaders Forum, an annual gathering of CEOs of large humanitarian development organizations. His previous research on accountability mechanisms within the World Bank led to a Congressional Testimony on improving the Bank's information disclosure policy. Professor Ebrahim teaches courses on leadership and strategy, and in executive programs at Fletcher, Harvard, and Georgetown. Prior to joining the Fletcher faculty, he taught at Harvard Business School, where he chaired two executive programs for social sector leaders, and also at Virginia Tech. Professor Ebrahim received his doctorate and master's degrees from Stanford University, and his bachelor of science from M.I.T. Ebrahim, A., Battilana, J., & Mair, J. (2014). The governance of social enterprises: Mission drift and accountability challenges in hybrid organizations. Research in Organizational Behavior, 34, 81-100. doi:10.1016/j.riob.2014.09.001

Amar Bhidé

Job Titles:
  • Thomas Schmidheiny Professor in International Business Emeritus

Andrea Mejia

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021

Andrea Walther-Puri

Job Titles:
  • Doctor of Philosophy

Andrew Hess

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Anna Haensch

Job Titles:
  • Data Scientist I

Aram Hur

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Political Science

Arpad Von Lazar

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Arthur Lo

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021

Avantika Singh

Job Titles:
  • Global Master of Arts Program ( GMAP ), 2023

Barbara Kates-Garnick

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Practice

Barton L. Rachlin

Job Titles:
  • E59, A85P Professor

Bernard Simonin

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing and International Business

Bhaskar Chakravorti

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Bridget Conley

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Bruce Watson

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Carlos Alvarado Quesada

Job Titles:
  • Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy

Carolyn Gideon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer of International Communications and Technology Policy

Carsten Kowalczyk

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of International Economics

Cecile Aptel

Job Titles:
  • Professor of the Practice of International Law

Chiara Fargnoli

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2024

Chidi Odinkalu

Job Titles:
  • Professor of the Practice of International Human Rights Law

Christine Bustany

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in International Law

Christoffer Orre

Job Titles:
  • Master of Laws in International Law ( LLM ), 2023

Christopher Miller

Job Titles:
  • Professor of International History

Colin Halvey

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2022

Constantine G. Karamanlis

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Hellenic and European Studies

Daniel Drezner

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor of International Politics

Daniel Maxwell

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Daniel Richards

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor, Economics, Arts and Sciences / Professor of Economics

David Lander

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2024

David Logan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Security Studies

Deborah Kochevar

Job Titles:
  • Dean Emerita, Cummings School & Senior Fellow, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Deborah Sunter

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering

Dhini Purnamasari

Job Titles:
  • GBA Lecturer

Diana Chigas

Job Titles:
  • Professor of the Practice in International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

Diana Haber

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021

Diane Ryan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Programs and Administration

Donald Heflin

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director of the Edward R. Murrow Center and As Senior Fellow of Diplomatic Practice in the Center

DP Singh

Job Titles:
  • Professor of the Practice of Global Consulting

Dyan Mazurana

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor

Edwin Ginn

Job Titles:
  • Library

Eileen Babbitt

Job Titles:
  • Professor of the Practice of International Conflict Management

Elisa Alvarez-Garrido

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Instructor

Elizabeth McClintock

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Negotiations

Elizabeth Stites

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate Professor

Elke Jahns-Harms

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer
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.

Emma Bixler

Job Titles:
  • Doctor of Philosophy

Emmanuel Gebremeskel

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Evaghelia Kamariotou

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts ( MA ), 2023

Fletcher Board

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Gautam Mukunda

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Associate Professor

Gautier Parthon de Von

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts in Transatlantic Affairs ( MATA ), 2023

Gerald Brown

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Senior Lecturer

Henry J. Leir Professorship

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Tisch College, Tisch

Hilary D. Price

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Hurst Hannum

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Ian Johnstone

Job Titles:
  • Professor of International Law

Ibrahim Warde

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor of International Business

Isaac Tan

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021

James Forest

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Professor of Security Studies

Jayshree Venkatesan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Jeffrey (Jeff) W. Taliaferro

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Jennifer Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2024

Jenny Aker

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor

Jeremy Blaney

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Jeremy Gwinn

Job Titles:
  • Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2021

Jeremy Leong

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Lecturer

Jessica Pacheco

Job Titles:
  • Master of Global Business Administration ( GBA ), 2024

Jeswald Salacuse

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Jette Knudsen

Job Titles:
  • Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Business

Joel Trachtman

Job Titles:
  • Professor of International Law

Joey Ching Aracena

Job Titles:
  • Doctor of Philosophy

John Burgess

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow - Center for Law and International Governance

John Cerone

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Professor of International Law

John Shattuck

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Practice in Diplomacy

Jonathan Brookfield

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Associate Professor

Joseph Zorokong

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021

Josephine Wolff

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy

Joshua Hurwitz

Job Titles:
  • GBA Lecturer

Julie Schaffner

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor of Development Economics

Karen Jacobsen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean, Research Director, Refugees in Towns at the Leir Institute for Migration and Human Security
  • 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.

Karst Brandsma

Job Titles:
  • Doctor of Philosophy

Katrina Burgess

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Political Economy

Kelly Sims Gallagher

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
  • Dean / Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy
  • Professor of Energy & Environmental Policy

Kenneth Pucker

Job Titles:
  • Professor of the Practice

Kimberley Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Human Security

Kimberly Theidon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Kinsey Spears

Job Titles:
  • Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2023

Kiran Borra

Job Titles:
  • Master of Global Business Administration ( GBA ), 2024

Klaus Scharioth

Job Titles:
  • Professor of the Practice

Laurie A. Hurley

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Office of Admissions & Student Affairs

Lawrence Quartana

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor
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.

Lee E. Dirks

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Diplomatic History Emeritus

Leila Fawaz

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emerita and Founding Director, the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies

Lesley Brock

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021 / Founder, Smartt Strategies

Leticia Emme

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Instructor

Lorinc Redei

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Associate Professor

Makele Saidi

Job Titles:
  • Global Master of Arts Program ( GMAP ), 2023

Marcia Moreno-Báez

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor

Maribel Blanco

Job Titles:
  • 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

Marilia Ramos

Job Titles:
  • Master of International Business ( MIB ), 2024

Mary Richardson

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Mat Gamache

Job Titles:
  • Master of Global Business Administration ( GBA ), 2023

Matthew Reitz

Job Titles:
  • 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

Matthew Welchert

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021

Maulik Jagnani

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics

Melissa Palmer

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Melita Sawyer

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Michael Glennon

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Constitutional and International Law

Michael Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • GMAP Lecturer

Mihaela Papa

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Mikhail Troitskiy

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Professor

Mohit Saini

Job Titles:
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021 / Senior Associate, Phenix Capital Group

Monica Duffy Toft

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Murielle Munyemana

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  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021

Nadim Rouhana

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  • Professor of International Negotiation and Conflict Studies

Narges Mohammad Mahdi

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  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021 / Development Manager, Boston Plan for Excellence

Naseem Khuri

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  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Negotiations

Neeraja Kulkarni

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  • Master in Global Affairs ( MGA ), 2023

Nicholas Helldorfer Cicchinelli

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  • Doctor of Philosophy

Nigel Purvis

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  • Professor of the Practice

Polina Beliakova

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  • Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2023

Quyen Tran

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  • Professor of the Practice

Rhea Moss-Christian

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  • Master of Global Business Administration ( GBA ), 2022
  • Master of Global Business Administration ( GBA ), 2022 / Executive Director, Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission

Richard Shultz

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  • Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security Studies

Rizwan Ladha

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  • Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2017

Robert Nakosteen

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  • Visiting Professor of Statistics

Rockford Weitz

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  • Professor of the Practice in Maritime Studies

Sairah Aslam

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  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2024

Sally Zhang

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  • Assistant Professor of Economics

Sarah Westwood

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  • Master of Global Business Administration ( GBA ), 2023

Scott McDonald

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  • Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2024

Sebastián Mantilla Blanco

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  • Assistant Professor of International Economic Law

Seth Owusu-Mante

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  • Doctor of Philosophy

Shahzel Najam

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  • Master of Laws in International Law ( LLM ), 2023

Shawn Rajguru

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  • Global Master of Arts Program ( GMAP ), 2023

Shelby Cullom Davis

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  • Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Business
  • Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security Studies

Sisse Harder Delff

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  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021

Skip Nordhoff

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  • Member of the Fletcher Leadership Team
  • Senior Director of Development and Alumni Engagement

Stefan Tschauko

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  • Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2024

Stella Henderson

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  • Master of International Business ( MIB ), 2024

Stephen Park

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  • GBA Lecturer

Steven Block

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  • Professor of International Economics

Sulmaan Khan

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  • Associate Professor of International History and Chinese Foreign Relations

Surjit Tinaikar

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  • Adjunct Associate Professor

Susan Landau

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  • Professor in Cybersecurity and Policy

Tamirace Fakhoury

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  • Associate Professor of International Politics and Conflict

Tatum James

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  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2024

Thomas Burke

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  • Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), 2020

Thomas Cao

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  • Assistant Professor of Technology Policy

Thomas Hout

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  • Adjunct Senior Lecturer of Strategic Management

Thomas Schmidheiny

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  • Professor in International Business
  • Thomas Schmidheiny Professor in International Business Emeritus

Tom Dannenbaum

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  • Associate Professor of International Law

Tracy Jenkins

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  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy ( MALD ), 2021

Travis Franck

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  • Climate Modeling and Policy Director

Walter B. Wriston

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  • Professorship of International Finance and Banking

William Carroll

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  • GBA Lecturer

William L. Clayton

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  • Professor of International Economic Affairs

William R. Moomaw

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  • Professor of International Environmental Policy Emeritus

Yevhen Kudriavets

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  • Global Master of Arts Program ( GMAP ), 2023