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Award-Winning Author, Speaker and Professor
Jonathan Laurence is Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy and the author of several books and numerous essays on culture, religion and politics.
Professor of political science at Boston College and a former fellow of the Brookings Institution and the American Academy in Berlin, he is a board member of Reset Dialogues US. His work has appeared in such venues as the New York Times, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Le Monde.
Jonathan received his BA from Cornell, CEP from Sciences Po-Paris and PhD from Harvard.
