Released by the Office of Policy Planning
September 28, 2010
William Burke-White joined the Foreign Policy Planning Staff in June 2009. His portfolio includes International Organizations and issues of global governance, including the G8 and G20. In addition, Burke-White is a core part of the team developing and drafting the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR). Burke-White is on leave from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he teaches international law and human rights and writes on international law and international relations. Previously, Burke-White was Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany and Visiting Professor at MGIMO in Moscow, Russia and Mofid University in Iran, and Lecturer at Princeton University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in international relations from Cambridge University, and a J.D. and B.A. from Harvard College.
