Former Faculty Affiliates

	Paul Arthur Berkman is building connections between science, diplomacy and information technology to promote cooperation and prevent discord, balancing national interests and common interests for the benefit of all on Earth. He was a visiting professor at the University of California at the age of 24, after wintering the previous year in Antarctica on a SCUBA research expedition. He was Fulbright Distinguished Scholar and former Head of the Arctic Ocean Geopolitics Programme at the University of Cambridge, where he co-directed the first formal dialogue between NATO and Russia regarding environmental security in the Arctic Ocean. He also coordinates the Arctic Options and Pan-Arctic Options projects, involving support from national science agencies in the United States, Russian Federation, Norway, France, China and Canada (2013-2020). In 2015, he joined The Fletcher School as Professor of Practice in Science Diplomacy and was the Director of the Science Diplomacy Center. He has an extensive record of interdisciplinary research and publication, including books on Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean (2012) and Science Diplomacy: Antarctica, Science and the Governance of International Spaces (2011).
	Andrew C. Hess was a Professor of Diplomacy and Director of the Southwest-Central Asia and Islamic Civilization Program. He has a B.S. in engineering from the University of Michigan, an MBA from Kent State University, an M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and an A.M. and Ph.D. in Middle Eastern history from Harvard University. He taught courses on the modern history and politics of the South Caucasus, Central Asia, and Southwest Asia. He has a long record of developing and running diplomatic and ministerial training programs for numerous Persian Gulf and Central Asian states. His book, The Forgotten Frontier (2010), has been translated into Arabic and Turkish. Hess has been an officer in the United States Marine Corps, a steel mill foreman, the Assistant Director of the Center for Arabic Studies at the American University in Cairo, taught Middle Eastern history at Temple University, was appointed to a visiting research position at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, held a management post in Saudi Arabia with the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO), and has served as the Academic Dean of The Fletcher School. Hess is renowned for his travels in Central Eurasia where he acquired an interest in the use of Turkish re-curved bow.
	Elizabeth Prodromou is Visiting Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution at The Fletcher School. She is a Nonresident Senior Fellow in National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress and a Non-Resident Fellow at The Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism. Prodromou previously served as Vice Chair and Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (2004-2012) and was a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group (2011-2015) under Secretaries Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. Her research interests focus on the intersection of religion, democracy, and security, with particular expertise on religion and geopolitics in the Near East and Southeastern Europe. Prodromou holds a MALD from The Fletcher School and a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT.
	John Shattuck is Professor of Practice in Diplomacy at The Fletcher School and a Senior Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Previously he was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor under President Bill Clinton (1993-1998), where he played a key role in the establishment by the United Nations of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and former Yugoslavia. He later served as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (1998-2000), CEO of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation (2001-2009), a Lecturer and Senior Fellow at Tufts University (2007-2009), and the fourth President and Rector of Central European University in Budapest, Hungary (2009-2016). He has published over a dozen books and book chapters and more than fifty articles on U.S. foreign policy, human rights, civil liberties, and higher education. He chairs the Advisory Board of the Center on Ethics, Justice, and Public Life at Brandeis University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
	David Wirth is Visiting Professor of International Law at Fletcher. He holds a primary appointment as Professor of Law at Boston College Law School in Newton, Massachusetts, where he teaches environmental, administrative, public international, and foreign relations law. He was previously a senior attorney and co-director of international programs for the Natural Resources Defense Council and attorney-advisor for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs for the U.S. Department of State. He has been the recipient of Fulbright and National Science Foundation fellowships. Wirth is the author of more than 60 books, articles, and reports on international environmental law and policy for both legal and popular audiences. He received his A.M. from Harvard University, his A.B. from Princeton University, and his J.D. from Yale Law School.