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Christina L. Davis

Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs


Christina L. Davis is the Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics in the Department of Government and Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University. Her research interests include the politics and foreign policy of Japan, East Asia, and the European Union as well as the study of international organizations and trade policy. Her research has been published in leading political science journals. She is the author of Food Fights Over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization (Princeton University Press 2003), and Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO (Princeton University Press 2012, winner of the international law best book award of the International Studies Association, Ohira Memorial Prize, and co-winner of Chadwick Alger Prize). Her most recent book, Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations, was published by Princeton University Press in 2023. She graduated from Harvard College in 1993, received her PhD in government from Harvard in 2001, and returned to Harvard after 16 years as a professor at Princeton University.

Jeffry Frieden

Professor of Government, Harvard University


Jeffry Frieden is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He specializes in the politics of international economic relations. Frieden is the author of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (2015) and the co-author (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2012). Frieden is also the author of Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2007; second updated edition 2020), of Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985 (1992), of Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance (1987), and the co-author or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics. His articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications.

Peter A. Hall

Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University


Peter A. Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies in the Department of Government at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. His previous positions include Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center and Co-Director of the CIFAR Program on Successful Societies. Hall is editor of The Politics of Representation in the Global Age (with W. Jacoby, J. Levy and S. Meunier), Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era and Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health (with Michèle Lamont), Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make (with P. Culpepper and B. Palier), Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (with David Soskice), The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism across Nations, Developments in French Politics I and II (with A. Guyomarch and H. Machin), European Labor in the 1980s, the author of Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France and Political Change and Electoral Coalitions in Western Democracies (with G. Evans and S.I. Kim) as well as more than a hundred articles on European politics, policy-making, and comparative political economy. He has served on the editorial boards of many journals and the advisory boards of several European institutes. He is currently working on the political response to economic challenges in postwar Europe, the economic and cultural roots of populism, and the impact of social institutions on inequalities in health and well-being.

Joshua D. Kertzer

John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Government, Harvard University
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University


Joshua D. Kertzer is the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Government, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research specializes in the intersection of international security, political psychology, foreign policy, and public opinion. He is the author of Resolve in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2016) and Abstraction in Experimental Design: Testing the Tradeoffs (Cambridge University Press, 2023), along with articles appearing in a variety of academic journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Foreign Affairs, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Politics, and World Politics. His scholarship has received a range of awards, including the International Studies Association’s Karl Deutsch Award, the International Society of Political Psychology’s Alexander George and Jim Sidanius awards, and the American Political Science Association's Merze Tate and Kenneth N. Waltz awards, among others. At Harvard, he teaches classes on American foreign policy, international relations theory, and political psychology in international politics, for which he received Harvard’s Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Antonia Maioni

William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Weatherhead, Harvard University
Professor of Politics, Science, and Public Policy, McGill University


Antonia Maioni is the 2023-24 William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at Harvard University, in the Canada Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Department of Government. Professor Maioni’s research interests include comparative politics, public policy, Canadian and Quebec politics. Professor Maioni holds an appointment at McGill University in the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy in the School of Population and Global Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and is an Associate Member in the Department of Political Science and in the Desautels Faculty of Management. Previously, she served as Dean of Arts at McGill University from 2016 to 2021, and as Associate Vice President for Research and International Relations from 2014 to 2016. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University, an MA from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and a BA from Universite Laval. She is serving as a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation for 2023 – 2026 Scientific Cycle on Canada in the World: The Future of Foreign Policy.

Rana Mitter

ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School


Rana Mitter is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of several books, including Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II (2013) which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard, 2020). His writing on contemporary China has appeared recently in Foreign Affairs, the Harvard Business Review, The Spectator, The Critic, and The Guardian. He has commented regularly on China in media and forums around the world, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos. His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics "Meanwhile in Beijing" is available on BBC Sounds. He is co-author, with Sophia Gaston, of the report “Conceptualizing a UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group, 2020). He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History, awarded by the UK Historical Association. He previously taught at Oxford and is a Fellow of the British Academy.