Bruce Jentleson

Bruce Jentleson is professor of public policy and political science at Duke University, where he served from 2000 to 2005 as director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. His policy experience includes having served as a senior advisor to the U.S. State Department Policy Planning Director from 2009 to 2011. Other policy experience includes serving as a foreign policy aide for Sens. Dave Durenberger (R-MN, 1978-79) and Al Gore (D-TN, 1987-88); special assistant to the director of the State Department policy planning staff (1993-94); and as a foreign policy advisor to vice presidential candidate Gore (1992) and a senior foreign policy advisor to the Gore presidential campaign (1999-2000).

Jentleson holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and was a recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Harold D. Lasswell Award for his doctoral dissertation; a master's from the London School of Economics and Political Science; and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell. He has published numerous books and articles, including The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas, co-authored with Steven Weber (Harvard University Press, 2010).