Bob Lieber is Emeritus Professor of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University, where he previously served as Chair of the Government Department and interim chair of Psychology. He is author or editor of eighteen books on international relations and U.S. foreign policy, and his essays and op-eds have appeared in journals and newspapers in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. He also has served as an advisor to several presidential campaigns, to the State Department, and to the drafters of U.S. National Intelligence Estimates. His most recent book is Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy In A Turbulent World (Yale University Press).

He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin and Ph.D. at Harvard. He has taught at Harvard, Oxford and the University of California, Davis, and has been a visiting professor at universities in Paris, Tokyo, and Shanghai. He now lives in Chevy Chase Maryland, but is happy to spend winters in Longboat Key. Among his other credits is a walk-on part in the Alfred Hitchcock film classic, North by Northwest.

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