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Daniel Kurtz-Phelan Editor, Foreign Affairs; Peter G. Peterson Chair
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan is editor of Foreign Affairs. He previously spent three years as executive editor of the magazine and served in the U.S. State Department, including as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. His narrative history of George Marshall’s post–World War II mission to China, The China Mission, was published by Norton in 2018 and named a best book of the year by The Economist and an editor’s pick by The New York Times Book Review. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other publications. Follow him on X @dankurtzphelan.
Justin Vogt Executive Editor
Before joining Foreign Affairs in 2011, Justin Vogt was the managing editor of World Policy Journal. Earlier, he was a research editor and fact-checker at The New Yorker and an associate producer on documentary films for the PBS series Frontline. His writing has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate, and other outlets. Follow him on X @Justin_Vogt.
Chloe Fox Deputy Editor
Before joining Foreign Affairs in 2025, Chloe Fox was the features editor of The Wire China, a digital news magazine she helped launch in 2020. Earlier, she was the executive editor of Boston Review, an editor at HuffPost Hawaii, and an assistant editor at The New Yorker. Her writing has been published by The Boston Globe and Boston magazine.
Kanishk Tharoor Deputy Editor
Kanishk Tharoor’s writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Guardian, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Yorker, and Paris Review, and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award. He is the presenter of the BBC radio series Museum of Lost Objects. He is the author of Swimmer Among the Stars, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2017, a collection of short fiction that was a Guardian Book of the Year and an NPR Book of the Year. Follow him on X @kanishktharoor.
Hugh Eakin Editor-at-Large
A former senior editor at The New York Review of Books, Hugh Eakin has written widely about political change, art, and immigration in northern Europe and the Middle East. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and his book, Picasso’s War, was published by Crown in 2022. Follow him on X @HughEakin.
Daniel Block Senior Editor
Prior to joining Foreign Affairs in 2021, Daniel Block was executive editor at the Washington Monthly. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Politico Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Boston Globe, and other publications. From 2017 to 2018, he was a Luce Scholar writing for The Caravan and living in Delhi, India. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College. Follow him on X @dblock94.
Eve Fairbanks Senior Editor
Eve Fairbanks joined Foreign Affairs in 2023. Her essays and reportage frequently appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Wired, and The Guardian Long Reads, among other outlets. Raised in Virginia, she began her career as a congressional correspondent for The New Republic before moving to South Africa, where she has worked for 15 years. Her first book, The Inheritors, a chronicle of post-apartheid South Africa, won the 2023 PEN/America John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. Follow her on X @evefairbanks.
Joshua Freedman Senior Editor
Joshua Freedman joined Foreign Affairs in 2025. Previously, he held research positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the advisory firm China Policy, and New America. His research and writing have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including China Quarterly, The Atlantic, Washington Monthly, and Foreign Affairs. He holds a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University.
Laurel Jarombek Senior Editor
Laurel Jarombek was the managing editor of World Policy Journal before joining Foreign Affairs. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Williams College and a master’s degree from Sabanci University in Istanbul, where she was a Fulbright fellow. Follow her on X @laureljar.
Elise Burr Associate Editor
Elise Burr holds a bachelor’s degree in government from Dartmouth College. Before joining Foreign Affairs, she worked as a Middle East correspondent for The Economist.
David Kortava Associate Editor
David Kortava joined Foreign Affairs in 2024. Previously, he was on the editorial staff of The New Yorker, where he contributed articles on a wide variety of subjects. His writing and reporting have also appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. He is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Earlier, he served in the United States Peace Corps in South Africa.
Ashley Wood Associate Editor
Before joining Foreign Affairs in 2025, Ashley Wood served as an adviser in the Office of China Coordination at the U.S. Department of State and on the staff of the National Security Council. Prior to her government service, Ashley was a researcher at National Security Action. She is a graduate of Northwestern University. Follow her on X @_ashley_wood.
Caroline Wilcox Staff Editor
Caroline Wilcox holds a bachelor’s degree in international politics from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Ben Metzner Assistant Editor, David M. Rubenstein Editorial Fellow
Ben Metzner holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature and history from Yale University. His writing has been published by The New Republic. Follow him on X @bmetznr.
Rachel Powell Social Media Editor
Rachel Powell joined Foreign Affairs in September 2022. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and human rights from Barnard College of Columbia University.
Elizabeth Howard Senior Copyeditor
Elizabeth Howard has decades of experience copyediting works on American history, world history, historic architecture, landscape architecture, and conservation. Before joining Foreign Affairs, she was the copyeditor for MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. She holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Michigan.
Ed Johnson Art Director
Ed Johnson has worked as an editorial art director and designer for more than a decade, including time as creative director at Institutional Investor, art director at Foreign Policy, and production and creative director at the New York Observer. Freelance clients include The Atavist Magazine, Politico, and more. His work has been recognized by the Society of Publication Designers, the Society for News Design, and the Society of Illustrators, among other organizations, and was included in the Best American Infographics 2016 book. Follow him on X @edxjohnson.
Michaela Staton Assistant Art Director
Michaela Staton holds a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from Anderson University and a master’s degree in communication and typeface design from the University of Reading. Before joining Foreign Affairs, she worked as a designer for a variety of advertising, public relations, and branding firms.
Irina Hogan Editorial Operations Manager
Before joining Foreign Affairs, Irina Hogan worked in the development department of the New York Public Library. She holds a bachelor’s degree in public administration from the University of Bucharest.
Soo-Jin Lea Editorial Operations Assistant
Soo-Jin Lea holds a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Knox College. She joined Foreign Affairs in May 2025.
REGULAR BOOK REVIEWERS
Lisa Anderson (Middle East)
Lisa Anderson is the James T. Shotwell Professor Emerita of International Relations at Columbia University. She served as provost and then president of the American University of Cairo between 2008 and 2015. From 1996 to 2006, she was dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Earlier, she served as chair of the political science department at Columbia and as director of the university’s Middle East Institute. She has also taught at Harvard and Princeton and has written extensively on politics in the Middle East, global public policy, higher education, and international research. She serves on the board of Scholars at Risk.
Elizabeth Economy (East Asia)
Elizabeth Economy is the Hargrove Senior Fellow and co-director of the Program on the U.S., China, and the World at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From 2021 to 2023, she served as the senior adviser for China to the U.S. secretary of commerce. An award-winning author and expert on Chinese domestic and foreign policy and U.S.-China relations, her most recent books include The World According to China and The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State. She sits on the boards of Swarthmore College, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. She is also a member of the Aspen Strategy Group.
Barry Eichengreen (Economic, Social, and Environmental)
Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. His books include In Defense of Public Debt; The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era; and Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses—and Misuses—of History.
Richard Feinberg (Western Hemisphere)
Richard Feinberg is is professor emeritus at University of California, San Diego, and a distinguished fellow at Florida International University. He has previously 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 doctorate in international economics from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in European history from Brown University.
Lawrence Freedman (Military, Scientific, and Technological)
Sir Lawrence Freedman is emeritus professor of war studies at King’s College, London. He was professor of war studies from 1982 to 2014. 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 and was a member of the United Kingdom’s official inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war. Among his books are Strategy: A History and Command: The Politics of Military Operations From Korea to Ukraine. He writes the Substack Comment Is Freed.
G. John Ikenberry (Political and Legal)
G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. He was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University, in 2018–19 and the Eastman Visiting Professor at Balliol College, Oxford, in 2013–14. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of eight books, most recently, A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order, and a co-editor of Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order.
Maria Lipman (Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)
Maria Lipman is the editor of Russia.Post, a website produced by the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University. In recent years, she has written commentary on Russia for Foreign Affairs. From 2003 to 2014, she was an associate at the Carnegie Moscow Center and served as editor in chief of Pro et Contra, the center’s policy journal. Previously, she wrote an op-ed column on Russia for The Washington Post (2001–11) and later contributed a blog for The New Yorker online (2012–17). Earlier in her career, she co-founded and served as deputy editor of two Russian weekly magazines.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta (South Asia)
Pratab Bhanu Mehta is a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and Laurence Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He was previously vice chancellor of Ashoka University and president of the Centre for Policy Research. He has published widely on political theory, politics in India, and international affairs. His books include The Burden of Democracy and, as co-editor, The Oxford Handbook to the Indian Constitution. He was the convener of India’s National Knowledge Commission from 2005 to 2007 and a member of India’s National Security Advisory Board from 2011 to 2014. He is a columnist for The Indian Express.
Jessica T. Mathews (The United States)
Jessica T. Mathews is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1997 to 2015, she served as Carnegie’s president. Prior to that, she was director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Washington Program and a senior fellow at CFR. Earlier in her career, she served as deputy to the U.S. undersecretary of state for global affairs during the Clinton administration and as director of the Office of Global Issues at the National Security Council during the Carter administration.
Andrew Moravcsik (Western Europe)
Andrew Moravcsik is professor of politics and international affairs and director of the European Union Program and the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University. He also holds positions at German and EU academic institutions. From 1992 to 2004, he taught at Harvard University. He has written scholarly publications on European integration, transatlantic relations, international organization, democratic legitimacy, and global human rights. His current research focuses on the role of the right-wing populists in foreign policy. He has written commentaries and policy analyses for Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and other publications. His policy experience on three continents includes service as trade negotiator for the U.S. government, special assistant to the deputy prime minister of the Republic of Korea, editor of a Washington-based foreign policy journal, and assistant in the press office of the European Commission. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford, a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and a doctorate from Harvard University.
Ken Opalo (Africa)
Ken Opalo is an associate professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His research explores the political economy of development, climate politics, legislative politics, state building, and education policy. He is a senior fellow at New America, a nonresident fellow at the Center for Global Development, and a research fellow in the economics department at Stellenbosch University. His first book, Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies, investigates legislative institutionalization in African states. He has also published in the British Journal of Political Science, World Development, Journal of Democracy, and The Journal of Legislative Studies, among other scholarly publications.
PUBLISHING
Stephanie Solomon Vice President; Chief Revenue Officer, Foreign Affairs
Stephanie Solomon joined Foreign Affairs in April 2018. Most recently, she worked for Upside, a startup business travel website from the founder of Priceline.com and consulted for Columbia University’s marketing department. Prior to that, Stephanie spent 17 years at Time Inc. in a variety of senior roles across consumer marketing, finance, and strategy. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Cornell University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Jonathan Chung Circulation Operations Director
Jonathan Chung joined Foreign Affairs in July 2010. He holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Bentley University.
Carlos A. Morales Director, Digital Analytics and Audience Development
Before joining Foreign Affairs in 2015, Carlos Morales was research director at NBC. Previously, he served in various roles at Univision and the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, and a data science certificate from the Columbia School of Engineering.
Michael Pasuit Advertising Director
Nora Revenaugh Director of Product
Nora Revenaugh holds a bachelor’s degree in writing, literature, and publishing from Emerson College and a papal indulgence from Benedict XVI for walking the Camino de Santiago. She has pursued other studies at the World Academy of Music and Dance in Ireland, the Cortiva Institute in Boston, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California. She was a touring Mainstage storyteller and remains on the teaching artist staff for The Moth, an NPR-affiliated nonprofit.
Grace Finlayson Manager, Product Operations
Grace Finlayson started at Foreign Affairs in 2017. She holds a bachelor’s degree in public relations and global studies from Hofstra University.
Tasia Fischer Manager, Product Operations
Before joining the Foreign Affairs team, Tasia Fischer managed creative content and capacity building of fundraising staff in 20+ country offices for Save the Children U.S. She has six years of nonprofit marketing experience and received her BA from the University of Connecticut in international relations with a thematic focus on human rights and a minor in human rights.
Elizabeth Earles, Assistant Manager, Advertising
Elizabeth Earles joined Foreign Affairs in October 2021. Earlier, she worked for a global public relations firm, where she managed internal and external communications for a variety of international clients. She holds bachelor’s degrees in public relations and Spanish from Auburn University as well as a master of arts in international relations, with a concentration in Latin American and Caribbean studies, from New York University.
Katya Bandouil Audience Development and Digital Analytics Associate
Katya Bandouil holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining Foreign Affairs, she worked as a U.S. audience editor for The Independent.
Belle Johnson Business and Production Associate
Belle Johnson joined Foreign Affairs in June 2022. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Musical Theater and Math from Bowling Green State University.
Caitlin Joseph Assistant Manager, Email Operations
Before joining Foreign Affairs in February 2022, Caitlin Joseph worked as an executive assistant and a marketing coordinator. She has almost a decade of experience working for various cultural nonprofits in Baltimore and Chicago and holds a bachelor of fine arts in acting from Towson University.
Chris Grinley Marketing Coordinator
Chris Grinley holds a master’s degree in Arab studies from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in political science, German, and international affairs from the University of New Hampshire. They joined Foreign Affairs in 2023.
Beatrice Viri Advertising Operations Associate
Before joining Foreign Affairs in 2025, Beatrice worked in digital operations (email marketing, advertising, web administration, client support) for the literary magazine Publishers Weekly. She holds a degree from CUNY: Hunter College and a data analytics and visualization certificate from LaGuardia Community College.
