Education:
MPA, Princeton University
Expertise:
Congress and foreign policy; U.S. policy in the Middle East; counterterrorism and homeland security policy; U.S. intelligence community
Background:
Christopher A. Kojm joined the Elliott School as Professor of the Practice of International Affairs in June 2007.
Throughout 2006, he served as a Senior Adviser to the Iraq Study Group, co-chaired by former Secretary James A. Baker III and former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton.
During 2004-05 and again in spring 2006, he was the John A. Weinberg Goldman Sachs Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in Princeton, NJ.
In 2003-2004, he served as Deputy Director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission), and from September 2004 to December 2005 he was President of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, a non-profit dedicated to public education about the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.
From 1998 to 2003, he held the post of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Policy and Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, in the Department of State.
From 1984 to 1998, he served on the Staff of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, US House of Representatives, under Rep. Lee H. Hamilton, Ranking Member (1995-1998), Chair (1993-94) and Chair of the Europe & Middle East Subcommittee (1984-1992). He also served on the associate staff of the Joint Congressional Investigation of the Iran-Contra affair (1987).
From 1979 to 1984, he was a Senior Editor with the Foreign Policy Association in New York City.
He holds a Master's Degree in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University (1979) and an AB in History from Harvard College (1977).
Courses Taught:
IAff 171 U.S. Foreign Policy Institute
IAff 203 Op-Ed Writing Skills
IAff 358 U.S. Policy & Iraq
IAff 371 U.S. Foreign Policy Institute
Last update: 7/10/2008
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