Dr. Stewart Patrick is senior fellow and director of the program on international institutions and global governance at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

His areas of expertise include multilateral cooperation, international institutions, and the challenges posed by fragile, failing, and post-conflict states.

From September 2002 to January 2005, Dr. Patrick served on the secretary of state’s policy planning staff, with lead staff responsibility for U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and a range of transnational issues. Following government service, he was Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development.

Dr. Patrick is the author or co-author of four books, including Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security (2011), and The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War (2009). He is also the executive producer of CFR’s Global Governance Monitor (www.cfr.org/ggmonitor), which maps and evaluates multilateral efforts to address global challenges. In addition, he writes the CFR blog “The Internationalist”. Dr. Patrick graduated from Stanford University and received his doctorate and two masters degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.