Ethan Kapstein is Paul Dubrule Professor of Sustainable Development at INSEAD, and
Visiting Fellow at the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales. Previously he was Stassen
Professor of International Peace at the University of Minnesota, Vice President of the Council on
Foreign Relations, Principal Administrator at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, and Executive Director of the Economics and National Security Program at Harvard University. He is a former international banker and has served as an officer in the United States Navy. A specialist in international economic relations, he has published widely in professional and policy journals, and is a frequent contributor to the op-ed pages of the
International Herald Tribune and Los Angeles Times. He is the author or editor of ten books, including the forthcoming The Fate of Young Democracies (with Nathan Converse, Cambridge University Press). Professor Kapstein has been a consultant to many private and public sector organizations, including the World Bank and OECD, and has been a visiting professor at Sciences Po (Paris), the University of Nice, the National Institute for Defense Studies (Tokyo) and the National War College (Washington, DC).