Event: National Security Seminar Series – Nov. 22

Dr. Eliot Cohen, is the Robert E. Osgood Professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) where he directs both the SAIS Strategic Studies Program and the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies. From 2007-2009 he was Counselor of the Department of State, serving as Secretary Condoleeza Rice's senior advisor on strategic issues including those relating to Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Russia. He is also the author of Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime (2002). Dr. Cohen has served as an officer in the United States Army Reserve, and as a member of the Defense Policy Board as well as other government advisory bodies. He holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard.