John K. Glenn

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John K. Glenn (@JKGinDC) is senior director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy, where he oversees and develops the Forum’s cross-cutting analytic and research activity in areas including transnational kleptocracy, the integrity of the information space, emerging technology, and modern authoritarian influence.
He has over 20 years of international experience in the nonprofit, foundation, and academic sectors, having previously served as policy director at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, director of foreign policy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and executive director of the Council for European Studies.  John also serves as adjunct faculty at the Elliott School for International Relations at George Washington University where he teaches graduate seminars on transatlantic relations, having previously taught at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.  He is an HFX Fellow on the Agenda Working Group for the Halifax International Security Forum.
He holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and Ph.D. and A.M. from Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, NYU, and Columbia University’s Institute of War and Peace Studies. John has appeared in the media widely, including on CNN International, BBC World, NPR’s Marketplace, and Bloomberg, and is the author of numerous articles, reports, and books on international affairs and democratic development, including Framing Democracy (Stanford University Press) and The Power and Limits of NGOs (Columbia University Press, co-edited with Sarah Mendelson). He is also on LinkedIn.