Center for International Security and Cooperation

Rodney C. Ewing,MS, PhD, Co-director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University

Rod Ewing is the Frank Stanton Professor in Nuclear Security and a Co-director at the Center for International Security and Cooperation in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences at Stanford University. He is also the Edward H. Kraus Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan and a Regents’ Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico.

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Scott D. Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, the Mimi and Peter Haas University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. He also serves as Chairman of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Committee on International Security Studies. Before joining the Stanford faculty, Sagan was a lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University and served as special assistant to the director of the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. Sagan has also served as a consultant to the office of the Secretary of Defense and at the Sandia National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Harold Trinkunas, Deputy Director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University

Harold Trinkunas is the Deputy Director of and a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Prior to arriving at Stanford, Dr. Trinkunas served as the Charles W. Robinson Chair and senior fellow and director of the Latin America Initiative in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. His research focuses on issues related to foreign policy, governance, and security, particularly in Latin America. Trinkunas has written on emerging powers and the international order, ungoverned spaces, terrorism financing, borders, energy security, drug policy and Internet governance.

Andrea Gray, Associate Director for Administration and Finance, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University

Andrea Gray joined CISAC in 2017 and serves as the Center’s Associate Director for Administration and Finance. Andrea started her career at Stanford in 2012 as a director at the Graduate School of Business responsible for delivering innovation and entrepreneurship programs internationally. In 2015, she moved to the School of Medicine as an internal consultant, supporting leadership at the School and two hospitals across a portfolio of initiatives in the areas of international strategy, graduate medical education, clinical expansion and faculty affairs. Prior to Stanford, Andrea managed a product line at a Fortune 500 company, helped lead a technology startup from conception to acquisition, worked as a strategy consultant, played a leadership role at a grassroots non-profit, and directed an educational foundation. Andrea holds a bachelor's degree from Queen's University in Canada.

CISAC's work is organized around formal research projects as well as broader themes involving collaboration among individual scholars. The Center's research and track-two diplomacy address the following areas of concern, which often share interdisciplinary connections: Nuclear Security and Risk; Cybersecurity Threats and the Future of the Internet; Terrorism, Insurgency, and Homeland Security; Governance, Organizations, and Security; Migration and Transnational Flows; and Health and the Environment.

Many of CISAC's distinguished faculty and researchers are available for commentary, interviews, or to provide background information on a wide range of subjects pertaining to international security.

Please direct media inquiries to: Steve Fyffe, CISAC Communications Manager.

The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.