Elizabeth Colagiuri is Executive Director of the Princeton Project on National Security and Senior Special Assistant to the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Prior positions include Special Assistant to the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Leslie H. Gelb, and Vice President for Marketing Strategy at Merrill Lynch Global Private Client. She was an active duty naval officer for five years, and her assignments included serving as Assistant to the Navy's Chief of Legislative Affairs and as Assistant Protocol Officer to the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. In 1998 she was a Rosenthal Fellow working on foreign policy issues for Senator Bob Graham (D-FL). She received a B.A. in government from Cornell University and an M.P.A. in international relations from the Woodrow Wilson School.