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Leila Austin has most recently been working in non-profit management in addition to teaching Global Political Economy, U.S. Foreign Policy and Research & Design Methodology as an adjunct professor.

Prior to that she was professorial lecturer in Global Theory and History and Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins �鶹����’s School of Advanced International Studies (“SAIS”). Austin served as deputy director of Cultural Conversations at the Foreign Policy Institute at SAIS. She also managed a multi-year grant that launched the Global Politics and Religion Initiative at SAIS.

In addition, Austin teaches in the Global Security Studies department of Johns Hopkins �鶹����’s Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the �鶹���� of California’s campus in Washington, D.C. She has previously taught at the American �鶹����’s School of International Service, Georgetown �鶹����'s Center for Arab Studies, and Columbia �鶹����’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Education

• PhD - Political Science, Columbia �鶹����
• MA - International Affairs and International Economics, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.