Rachel Kleinfeld

Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld is the CEO and President of the Truman National Security Project, which she co-founded with Matthew Spence.  She previously consulted with the Center for Security and International Studies, where she worked with the Hon. Richard Danzig on bioterrorism response.  She has also served as a Senior Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton working on two Defense Science Board summer studies, information-sharing across the military, intelligence, and law enforcement communities, homeland security, and trade and security issues.

Rachel maintains a strong interest in efforts to improve the rule of law within other countries, to buttress human rights, security, and development. She has consulted for the World Bank, the Open Society Institute, the Culture of Lawfulness Project, and other private and nonprofit organizations regarding building strong police, judicial, and legal structures in weak states.  Rachel currently pursues her rule of law work as a non-resident associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Rachel has appeared as a commentator on radio and television, and has been published in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.  Her writings have appeared in multiple books, including: Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad (2005); With All Our Might (2006); and The Future of Human Rights (2008).  Her work on U.S. and EU strategies to build the rule of law in Indonesia will appear in an upcoming Palgrave publication in 2009.  Rachel has also served on the Board of Trustees for the Blue Fund, a progressive mutual fund, as an election monitor in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and on the Rhodes Scholarship Committee for the 5th District.

A Rhodes Scholar and a Truman Scholar, Dr. Kleinfeld received her B.A. from Yale University and her M. Phil and D. Phil in International Relations from St. Antony's College, Oxford. She was born and raised in beloved Fairbanks, Alaska.