Staff & Contributors

Staff

Peter-Certo

Peter Certo

Peter Certo is an editor and writer based at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he edits the institute's Foreign Policy In Focus website and serves as deputy editor of the non-profit editorial… View more »

John Feffer

John Feffer

John Feffer is director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. View more »

Miriam Pemberton

Miriam Pemberton

Miriam Pemberton is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, writing and speaking on demilitarization issues for its Foreign Policy In Focus project. She has recently published a report, "Military vs. Climate… View more »

Columnists

Christine Ahn

Christine Ahn

Christine Ahn is a policy analyst with expertise in Korea, globalization, militarism, women's rights and philanthropy. She is co-founder of the Korea Policy Institute (KPI), National Campaign to End the Korean War, and Korean Americans… View more »

Walden Bello

Walden Bello

Foreign Policy In Focus columnist Walden Bello is a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines and a senior analyst at the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South. View more »

Laura Carlsen

Laura Carlsen

Foreign Policy In Focus columnist Laura Carlsen is director of the Americas Program for the Center for International Policy in Mexico City. View more »

Hannah Gurman

Hannah Gurman

Foreign Policy In Focus columnist Hannah Gurman is an assistant professor at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She writes on the politics, economics, and culture of U.S. diplomacy and military conflict.… View more »

Conn Hallinan

Conn Hallinan

Conn Hallinan is a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus. View more »

Kwei Quartey

Kwei Quartey

Columnist Kwei Quartey was born in Ghana and raised by an African American mother and a Ghanaian father, both of whom were university lecturers. He lives in Pasadena, California where he runs a wound… View more »

Stephen Zunes

Stephen Zunes

Stephen Zunes, a Foreign Policy In Focus columnist and senior analyst, is a professor of Politics and chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco. He is the author, along with… View more »

Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson

IPS Global Economy Project Director Sarah Anderson's current work includes research, writing, and networking on issues related to the impact of international trade, finance, and investment policies on inequality, sustainability, and human rights. Sarah… View more »

Mark Engler

Mark Engler

FPIF Senior Analyst, Mark Engler, is a writer based in New York City and senior analyst with Foreign Policy In Focus. He is author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over… View more »

Antonia Juhasz

Antonia Juhasz

Antonia Juhasz is a leading oil and energy expert. She is a Fellow of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Juhasz is the author of three books: Black Tide: the Devastating Impact… View more »

E. Ethelbert Miller

E. Ethelbert Miller

E. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist. He is the board chairperson of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). He is a board member of The Writer's Center and editor of Poet Lore magazine.… View more »

Adil E. Shamoo

Adil E. Shamoo

Adil E. Shamoo, a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Medicine, is an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow and a Foreign Policy In Focus senior analyst. He is the author of:… View more »

Ian Williams

Ian Williams

Ian Williams is a senior analyst whose work has written for newspapers and magazines around the world such as the Australian, The Independent, New York Observer, The Financial Times and The Guardian. View more »

Bloggers

Jo-Marie Burt

Jo-Marie Burt

Jo-Marie Burt teaches politics and Latin American Studies at George Mason University, where she is acting co-director of the Center for Global Studies. She is also a senior fellow at the Washington Office on… View more »

Michael Busch

Michael Busch

Michael Busch, a Foreign Policy In Focus contributor, teaches international relations at the City College of New York and serves as research associate at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. He is currently… View more »

John Feffer

John Feffer

John Feffer is director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the author of several books and numerous articles. He has been an Open Society Foundation Fellow and… View more »

Conn Hallinan

Conn Hallinan

Conn Hallinan is a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus. View more »

Paul Mutter

Paul Mutter

Paul Mutter is a contributor to the Arabist, Foreign Policy in Focus, and Mondoweiss. View more »

Rob Prince

Rob Prince

Rob Prince is a lecturer of International Studies at the University of Denver's Korbel School of International Studies where he has helped build that program's undergraduate major in International Studies. Although he hails from… View more »

Russ Wellen

Russ Wellen

Russ Wellen edits the Foreign Policy in Focus blog Focal Points for the Institute of Policy Studies. A student of the metaphysics of nuclear weapons, he has written about disarmament for a variety of publications such as… View more »

Ian Williams

Ian Williams

Ian Williams is a senior analyst whose work has written for newspapers and magazines around the world such as the Australian, The Independent, New York Observer, The Financial Times and The Guardian. View more »

Emira Woods

Emira Woods

Emira Woods is co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, and an expert on U.S. foreign policy with a special emphasis on Africa and the developing world. She has… View more »

Coletta Youngers

Coletta Youngers

Coletta A. Youngers is the Latin America Regional Associate with the International Drug Policy Consortium and a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America. She is an analyst of international drug policy,… View more »

Stephen Zunes

Stephen Zunes

Stephen Zunes, a Foreign Policy In Focus columnist and senior analyst, is a professor of Politics and chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco. He is the author, along with… View more »