Kenneth R. Weinstein

Kenneth R. Weinstein is the Chief Executive Officer of Hudson Institute. As CEO, he oversees the institute's research, project management, external affairs, marketing, and government relations efforts. He is an expert in international affairs, public policy and public discourse, U.S.-European relations, political affairs, Middle East affairs, France, Japan, and religion. He comments on national and international affairs on television and in publications such as The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, and The New Republic.

Ken Weinstein is a political theorist who received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University, his D.E.A. in Soviet and Eastern European Studies from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and his B.A. in General Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. He grew up in New York City and attended Stuyvesant High School. He has taught at Claremont McKenna College and Georgetown University.

He has been decorated with a knighthood in Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication as a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and he serves by presidential appointment and Senate confirmation as a member of the National Humanities Council, the governing body of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Married to Amy Kauffman, and the father of three, he lives in Washington, D.C.

References

* [http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=WeinKenn Hudson Institute bio]
* [http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=718 The Clinton-Gore Texas Two-Step]
* [http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=4587 The Anti-Chirac Elections]