John Glenn, PhD

John K. Glenn is professorial lecturer in international affairs at the Elliott School for International Affairs, with 20+ years of experience in the policy, advocacy, and nonprofit sectors.  Dr. Glenn has served in senior leadership positions at the National Endowment for Democracy, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, and German Marshall Fund of the United States. He is an HFX fellow on the Agenda Working Group of the Halifax International Security Forum and a member of the Global Atlanticists Advisory Board for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. He also served as executive director of the Council for European Studies, the international professional association for scholars of Europe. He has written and spoken extensively on international affairs, transatlantic relations, and democracy and development, including Framing Democracy (Stanford University Press) and The Power and Limits of NGOs (Columbia University Press, co-editor).  He held post-doctoral fellowships at the European University Institute in Florence, Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, New York University, and Columbia University’s Institute of War and Peace Studies.  He holds a Ph.D. and A.M. in Sociology from Harvard University and a B.A. from Oberlin College.