Speaker Bio

Charles A. Kupchan is Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2014 to 2017, Kupchan served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council in the Obama White House. He was also Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration. His most recent books are "Anchoring the World: International Order in the Twenty-First Century" (2021), "Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World" (2020), "No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn" (2012), and "How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace" (2010). His forthcoming book is "Bringing Order to Anarchy: Governing the World to Come" (2026).