Staff

Staff Biographies

Editorial

James F. Hoge, Jr.
Editor, Peter G. Peterson Chair
James Hoge spent three decades in newspaper journalism, serving as a Washington correspondent, editor in chief and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, and then publisher of the New York Daily News. Under his leadership, the Chicago Sun-Times won six Pulitzer Prizes for journalistic excellence and the New York Daily News won one. He became editor of Foreign Affairs in 1992.

Gideon Rose
Managing Editor
Gideon Rose has been Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs since December 2000. He has served as Associate Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council and has taught American foreign policy at Princeton and Columbia universities.

Stéphanie Giry
Deputy Managing Editor
Stéphanie Giry has written for Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The New Republic, and The Washington Post, among other publications. Before turning to journalism, she practiced international law in a large corporate firm and at the United Nations.

Sasha Polakow-Suransky
Associate Editor
Sasha Polakow-Suransky holds a D.Phil in Modern History at St. Antony's College, Oxford. After attending Brown University as an undergraduate, he worked as a writing fellow and senior correspondent at the American Prospect. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 2003, and is now writing a book on Israeli-South African relations during the apartheid years. 

Joshua Yaffa
Associate Editor
Joshua Yaffa has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, GOOD Magazine, The Forward, and The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, among other publications. He holds masters' degrees in journalism and international affairs from Columbia University, and a bachelor's degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Stuart Reid
Associate Editor
Stuart Reid has a bachelor's degree in Government from Dartmouth College, where he served as an editor at The Dartmouth and wrote a senior thesis on the role of individual leaders in international relations.

David Feith
Assistant Editor
David Feith holds a bachelor’s degree in History from Columbia University, where he edited The Current. He was a Robert L. Bartley fellow at the Wall Street Journal in 2008 and 2009.

Ann Tappert
Copy Editor
Ann Tappert has been a freelance manuscript editor for over ten years, working for a number of publishers on both academic and trade books. She holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Lorenz Skeeter
Production Manager

Ib Ohlsson
Contributing Artist

Rosemary Hartman
Assistant to the Editor
Rosemary Hartman joined Foreign Affairs in 1986, as Assistant to the Managing Editor. She worked subsequently for William Hyland, the immediate past Editor of Foreign Affairs, and now serves as principal administrative assistant to Editor James Hoge. Prior to joining the magazine, Rosemary worked in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, for senior members of the Department of Government.

Kathryn Allawala
Research Associate to the Managing Editor
Kathryn Allawala joined Foreign Affairs in March 2007. She holds a master’s degree in political science from New York University and a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

Elira Coja
Editorial Assistant

Book Review Panel

L. Carl Brown
Book Reviewer: Middle East
L. Carl Brown, Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University, is a historian of the modern Near East and North Africa, with special emphasis on the Arab world. A member of the Princeton faculty from 1966 to 1993, he was long director of the interdisciplinary Program in Near Eastern Studies. Brown is author of The Tunisia of Ahmad Bey (1975), International Politics in the Middle East: Old Rules, Dangerous Game (1984), Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics (2000), and co-author of Tunisia: The Politics of Modernization (1964).

Richard N. Cooper
Book Reviewer: Economic, Social, and Environmental
Richard N. Cooper is Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University. His primary interests are International economics, including international trade and international monetary economics, international environmental and energy issues. He is author of What the Future Holds: Insights from Social Science; Prospects for the World Economy; Trade Growth in Transition Economies: Export Impediments for Central and Eastern Europe; and Boom, Crisis and Adjustment: The Macroeconomic Experiences of Developing Countries, 1970-1990.

Richard Feinberg
Book Reviewer: Western Hemisphere
Richard Feinberg is Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. He has previousy served as Senior Director of the National Security Council's Office of Inter-American Affairs, as President of the Inter-American Dialogue, and in the Treasury and State departments. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

Lawrence Freedman
Book Reviewer: Military, Scientific, and Technological
Sir Lawrence Freedman has been Professor of War Studies at King's College, London since 1982. In 2002 he became Head of the School of Social Sciences and Public Policy at King's College London. Before joining King's he held research appointments at Nuffield College Oxford, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London. Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995, he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign in 1997.

Philip H. Gordon
Book Reviewer: Western Europe
Philip H. Gordon is Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. He has served as Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council and has held teaching and research posts at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC; INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France and Singapore; and the German Society for Foreign Affairs in Bonn. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Foreign Affairs and other publications. His most recent books include Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World (Times Books 2007); Crescent of Crisis: U.S.-European Strategy for the Greater Middle East (Brookings, 2006); Allies at War: America, Europe and the Crisis Over Iraq (McGraw-Hill, 2004); and The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization (Brookings 2002).

G. John Ikenberry
Book Reviewer: Political and Legal
G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He has taught at Georgetown University and the University of Pennsylvania and served as Co-Director of the Lauder Institute of Pennsylvania and as a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of numerous publications, including After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars; State Power and World Markets: The International Political Economy; and Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government.

Robert Legvold
Book Reviewer: Eastern Europe/Former Soviet Republics
Robert Legvold is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He specializes in the foreign policy of the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states, and his current research interests focus on the international relations of the post-Soviet region and their impact on the international politics of East Asia and Western Europe. He is on the Executive Committee of the Harriman Institute and was Director of Soviet Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1978-84.

Walter Russell Mead
Book Reviewer: The United States
Walter Russell Mead is a Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations studying the evolving global economy and its implications for American society and foreign policy. He is currently engaged in a project aimed at developing a global middle class. Mead was the project director for the Ford Foundation-funded Working Group on Development, Trade & International Finance, as well as the project director of the Study Group on the History of U.S. Foreign Policy. He was also co-director of the Council on Foreign Relations' Independent Task Force on U.S.-Cuba Relations. Mead is a Senior Contributing Editor to Worth magazine, a contributing editor at the opinion section to the Los Angeles Times, an author, and frequent contributor to other leading newspapers and magazines.

Andrew J. Nathan
Book Reviewer: Asia and Pacific
Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.  He writes on Chinese politics and foreign policy, the comparative study of political participation and political culture, and human rights. He is also co-chair of the board of Human Rights in China, a member of the board of Freedom House, and a member of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch, Asia.  His books include Chinese Democracy, The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security (with Robert S. Ross); The Tiananmen Papers (co-edited with Perry Link); and China’s New Rulers: The Secret Files (co-authored with Bruce Gilley).

Nicolas van de Walle
Book Reviewer: Africa
Nicolas van de Walle is the Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University. He is the Jack S. Knight Professor of International Studies with an appointment in the Government Department. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington. He has taught also at Michigan State University, and has worked at The World Bank and The United Nations Development Program. He has published widely on democratization issues as well as on the politics of economic reform in Africa and on the effectiveness of foreign aid. In addition to authoring over thirty five journal articles and book chapters, he has authored African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999 (2001), Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspectives (1997), Improving Aid to Africa (1996) and Of Time and Power: Leadership Duration in the Modern World (1991). He is also the co-editor of Beyond Adjustment: The Institutional Foundations of African Development (2003), Agenda for Africa's Economic Renewal (1996) and Foreign Aid in Africa: Learning from Country Experiences (1997). He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1990. Van de Walle joined the Foreign Affairs book review panel beginning with the May/June 2004 issue.

Business

David Kellogg
Publisher
David Kellogg is Publisher of Foreign Affairs and also a Senior Vice President at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Katie Sedgwick
Special Assistant
Katie joined the team in February 2007 and, as Special Assistant to the SVP and Publisher, splits her time between her responsibilities with Foreign Affairs and The Council on Foreign Relations. Katie holds a B.B.A. in Risk Management and Insurance from the University of Georgia.

Lynda Hammes
Deputy Publisher and Director of Digital Strategy
As deputy publisher, Lynda stewards the business operations of the Foreign Affairs magazine and website. Her favorite article from the archives is Robert Sapolsky's on what primatology can tell us about war & peace.

Emilie Harkin
Senior Manager, Marketing and Online Business
Prior to joining Foreign Affairs as the senior marketing manager in August 2007, Emilie Harkin worked at The New Republic as the Associate Director/Online.

Rachel Leven
Assistant Manager, Operations and Marketing
Rachel joined Foreign Affairs in September 2007. She holds a BA in international relations from Tufts University.

Richard Wanderer
West Coast Account Manager
Before joining the sales staff of Foreign Affairs in 2004 to handle west coast advertising sales, Richard Wanderer has been a career advertising space salesman for other major publishing companies. Mr. Wanderer is also an attorney and a member of the California Bar. He has devoted considerable spare time in the past for pro bono causes.

Michael Pasuit
Senior Account Manager

Edward Walsh
Advertising Director

Carolina Aguilar
Advertising Sales & Marketing Coordinator

Andrea Martin
Manager, Retail Marketing & Fulfillment
Andrea joined Foreign Affairs in October 2006. She previously worked at the Christian Science Monitor in Boston, MA. She holds a BA in Communications and International Affairs from Northeastern University.

Tom Davey
Director, Web Management and Development
Tom directs the CFR Web Management and Development Department, which operates ForeignAffairs.com, cfr.org, and other CFR Web properties. Once an aspiring scholar of 18th-century British literature, Tom studied for the English Ph.D. at UCLA but, along with just about everybody in California, switched careers to the Web during the dot-com ka-boom of the 1990s. Website management positions with Linuxcare, Juice Software, and other impressively funded but ultimately luckless start-ups followed. He joined the CFR staff in February 2003. Tom still takes a little snack of Edward Gibbon every day.

Cree Frappier
Deputy Director, Web Management and Development
Mr. Frappier joined the Council on Foreign Relations in 1999 and is Deputy Director for Website Management and Development. The office oversees the online initiatives for the Council, including cfr.org and ForeignAffairs.com. Prior to joining the Council, he worked as a website design consultant.

Joan Colbert McGrath
Web Producer

Carl Strolle
Technical Web Producer

Daniel Nakhla
Web Producer
Daniel comes to Foreign Affairs after graduating with honors from Siena College, earning a BS in Computer Science. He has worked at AT&T as an analyst, Pear Software as part of the software engineering team, and also interned at The New York State Department of Tax and Finance.

Frank Brunetti
Web Production Associate
Frank Brunetti is a freelance Web developer living in Brooklyn, New York. He produces all of the Web pages at ForeignAffairs.com and its Spanish-language site, foreignaffairs-esp.org. Prior to joining the Foreign Affairs Web team in April 2003, Frank produced the technologyreview.com Web site at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

Media Relations

Lisa Shields
Vice President for Communications and Marketing, Council on Foreign Relations

Nadine Apelian
Assistant Director and Media Relations, Foreign Affairs