Avis T. Bohlen
Former Assistant Secretary for Arms Control; Former US Ambassador to Bulgaria
John L. Harper
Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University; Senior Adjunct Professor, SAIS Europe
Erik Jones
Director, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute
Robert Skidelsky
Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, Warwick University
David Patrick Calleo (July 19, 1934 – June 15, 2023) was an American political scientist, based at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he held the titles of Dean Acheson Professor of European Studies at SAIS and University Professor.
He founded (in 1968) and directed (until 2012) the preeminent American graduate program for the study of contemporary Europe. SAIS European Studies has formed hundreds of professionals working today in government, business, academia, and the press.
Calleo was one of the most thoughtful, multi-faceted, and original scholar-commentators of his generation. His interests have ranged from the international economy to transatlantic relations to European integration to the history of ideas. His books include Follies of Power: America's Unipolar Fantasy (2009); Rethinking Europe's Future (2001); The Bankrupting of America (1992); Beyond American Hegemony: The Future of the Western Alliance (1987); The Imperious Economy (1982); The German Problem Reconsidered (1978); America and the World Political Economy (1973); The Atlantic Fantasy (1970); Britain's Future (1968); The American Political System (1968); Coleridge and the Idea of a Modern Nation State (1966); and Europe's Future (1965).
DANA H. ALLIN
Dana H. Allin is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe, and Editor of Survival and senior fellow for Transatlantic Affairs, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Deputy director, Aspen Institute Berlin (1993-1997); deputy director, International Commission on the Balkans (1995-1997); PhD, international relations, SAIS. Allin is author of numerous book chapters and articles in Survival, International Affairs, World Policy Journal, The International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
AVIS T. BOHLEN
Avis T. Bohlen served for 25 years as a career Foreign Service Officer with the US State Department, 30 years with the US government. Positions included: Assistant Secretary for Arms Control (1999-2002), Ambassador to Bulgaria (1996-1999), Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Paris (1991-1995). Before that, numerous assignments in the State Department's Bureau of European Af-fairs, including Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe in charge of security issues. Also worked on the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff. Over the years, involved in policy on a wide range of issues re-lating to U.S.-European relations, European security issues, arms control and Soviet affairs. Before joining the Foreign Service in 1979, worked for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. M.A. from Columbia University (1965). B.A. from Radcliffe College (1961). Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. (2002-2003): Member, Inter-national Commission on the Balkans (2004-2006). Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University (School of Security Studies) (2005-2009). Part-time employee at Department of State, 2006 to pre-sent. Chair of Board of IREX (International Research and Exchanges) 2003-2013. Other Boards in-clude: American Academy of Diplomacy, American College of Sofia, Henry L. Stimson Center, Arms Control Association. Member Council on Foreign Relations, Century Association. Publications: "Rise and Fall of Arms Control," Survival, September, 2003; "Iran: an Opening for Diplomacy?", Survival, October-November, 2015. Married to David Calleo, Dean Acheson Professor and Director of Euro-pean Studies at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. Resides in Washington, D.C.
JOHN L. HARPER
John L. Harper is Senior Adjunct Professor, SAIS Europe, and Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University. AB Haverford College, 1972; PhD, Johns Hopkins SAIS, 1981; Resident Professor of American Foreign Policy and European Studies at the Bologna Center/SAIS Europe, 1981-2020. Member of the Istituto Affari Internazionali; contributing editor, Survival; former German Marshall Fund Research Fellow. He is the author of America and the Reconstruction of Italy, 1945-1948, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, winner of the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies, 1987 (in Italian translation as: America e la ricostruzione dell'Italia, Bologna: Il Mulino, 1987); American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 1995; American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; The Cold War, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011 (In Italian translation as: La Guerra fredda: un mondo in bilico, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013; Greek edition by Gutenberg Press, 2021).
ERIK JONES
Erik Jones is Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. Jones is author of The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union (2002), Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Small States (2008), Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity (2012, with Dana H. Allin), and The Year the European Crisis Ended (2014). He is editor or co-editor of books and special issues of journals on topics related to European politics and political economy including The Oxford Handbook of the European Union (2012) and The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics (2015). Professor Jones is co-editor of Government & Opposition and a contributing editor of Survival. His commentary has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, and other major newspapers and magazines across Europe and North America.
ROBERT SKIDELSKY
Robert Skidelsky is emeritus professor of political economy at Warwick University. His three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983,1992, 2000) won five prizes and his book on the financial crisis – Keynes: The Return of the Master – was published in September 2010. He was made a member of the House of Lords in 1991 (he sits on the cross-benches) and elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1994. How Much is Enough? The Love of Money and the Case for the Good Life, co-written with his son Edward, was published in July 2012. He is also the author of Britain in the 20th Century: A Success? (Vintage, 2014), editor of The Essential Keynes (Penguin Classics, 2015), and co-editor of Who Runs the Economy? (Palgrave, 2016) and Austerity Vs Stimulus (Palgrave, 2017). He has recently written and filmed a series of lectures on the History and Philosophy of Economics which will be made available as an open online course in partnership with the Institute for New Economics Thinking. His latest book is Money and Government, which will be published by Allen Lane in September 2018. He is now working on a book about automation and the future of work.