Jack A. Goldstone (PhD Harvard) is Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, a Senior Fellow of the Mercatus Center, and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He has also taught at Northwestern and the University of California, and been a visiting scholar at Cambridge, Stanford, and the California Institute of Technology.
He received the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship award from the American Sociological Association, the Arnoldo Momigliano Prize, the Barrington Moore Jr. Award, and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Mellon Foundation. He was recently Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Visitor to the American Academy in Berlin.
Recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on revolutions, Goldstone contributed to the National Intelligence Council’s “World 2030” report, the Bertelsmann Foundation’s “Global Megatrends” project and the US Holocaust Museum’s Genocide and Atrocity Prevention Task Force. He led a National Academy of Sciences study of USAID democracy assistance, and has worked with USAID, DIFD, the World Bank, and the US State and Defense Departments on developing their operations in fragile states. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he is also on the Advisory Board of the Council’s Center for Preventive Action. He is an Academic Fellow of the European Policy Council, a member of the Research Council of the International Forum of the National Endowment for Democracy, and serves on the International Advisory Board of the Gaidar Institute (Moscow).
Goldstone’s research focuses on conditions for building democracy and stability in developing nations, and the impact of global population changes. Goldstone is a popular lecturer on global megatrends, and has been keynote speaker at events in Oslo, Moscow, Antalya, Delhi, Beijing, Berlin, Aspen and New York, and appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, Russia Today, and Fox News.