The ACG and the Freunde des American Council on Germany will host a breakfast briefing with Dr. Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow and Mosbacher Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law Director, Ford Dorsey Masters in International Policy Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.
RSVP (acceptances only) to the American Council on Germany at events@acgusa.org.
Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Director of the Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy, and the Mosbacher Director of FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.
Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. Other books include America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, and Political Order and Political Decay. His most recent book is Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, which was published in German by Hoffmann and Campe last year as Identität: Wie der Verlust der Würde unsere Demokratie gefährdet.
He received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation, and of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State. He previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University and at George Mason University’s School of Public Policy. He served as a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2004. He participated in ACG’s American-German Young Leaders Conference in 1985.