Stephen J. Flanagan is Senior Vice President and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Prior to joining CSIS in June 2007, he served for seven years as Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies and Vice President for Research at the National Defense University NDU.

Dr. Flanagan has held several senior positions in government, including Senior Director for Central and Eastern Europe at the National Security Council, National Intelligence Officer for Europe, and Associate Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff. He also has held academic and research appointments at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned his A.B. in political science from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is widely published and is co-editor, most recently, of Strategic Challenges : America’s Global Security Agenda (2008).