Joseph Nye

Joseph Nye

Aspen Strategy Group Co-Chair, University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Kennedy School of Government

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and a Deputy Under Secretary of State. His most recent books include Do Morals Matter? and a memoir, A Life in the American Century. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, he was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy. In 2011, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers, and in 2014, Japan awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun.