Kristin M. Lord
Science Diplomacy Fellow
Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution
 
Kristin Lord is a Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program and Saban Center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution. At Brookings, Dr. Lord directs the science and technology initiative of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World.

Prior to joining Brookings, Dr. Lord was Associate Dean for Strategy, Research, and External Relations at The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. In that capacity, she oversaw the School's six research centers, graduate admissions, public affairs, and strategic initiatives. During her twelve year tenure at the Elliott School, she launched three master’s programs, ten certificate programs, a global network of university partnerships, the School’s skills curriculum, and numerous educational programs for students, diplomats, and mid-career professionals from the public, private, and non-profit sectors. As a member of the faculty, she also taught courses on U.S. public diplomacy, U.S. foreign policy and the causes of war.

In 2005-2006, Lord served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and Special Adviser to the Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs. In that role, she worked on a wide range of issues including international science and technology cooperation, international health, democracy and the rule of law, communications, and public diplomacy.

Dr. Lord is the author of Perils and Promise of Global Transparency: Why the Information Revolution May Not Lead to Security Democracy or Peace, (SUNY Press, 2006), Power and Conflict in an Age of Transparency, edited with Bernard I. Finel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), and numerous book chapters, policy papers, and articles. In 2008, she published two Brookings reports A New Millennium of Knowledge? The Arab Human Development Report on Building a Knowledge Society, Five Years On and Voices of America: U.S. Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century. Her publications have appeared in International Studies Quarterly, Science, Foreign Service Journal, National Interest on-line, and the Christian Science Monitor. Dr. Lord holds a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University.