Full Name
Jennifer Lind
Job Title
Associate Professor, Government
Company
Dartmouth College
Speaker Bio
Professor Lind holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master’s in Pacific International Affairs from the University of California, San Diego, and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Lind is the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics [buy now], a book that examines the effect of war memory on international reconciliation (Cornell University Press, 2008). She has authored scholarly articles in International Security and International Studies Quarterly, and writes for wider audiences in outlets such as Foreign Affairs and National Interest. She has been quoted and interviewed by PBS Newshour, National Public Radio, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Professor Lind is affiliated with the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard, as well as Chatham House, London. In recent years she has been a visiting scholar at Waseda University, Japan, and at the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Lind has worked as a consultant for RAND and for the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense. She is currently writing a book about the speed and complexity with which countries rise to become great powers.
Jennifer Lind