Michael Shtender-Auerbach is Vice President and National Practice Leader for Social Risk Consulting. His practice provides a range of advisory services for clients in the private, public and nongovernmental sectors to assist them in implementing internal and external reporting and monitoring of their social environment and footprint. Prior to joining Control Risks, Michael was Chief Executive of Social Risks LLC which was acquired by Control Risks in 2009. Michael recently held senior positions at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. and The Century Foundation in New York, where he concentrated on issues of security and peace, and consulted widely on Middle East policy, national security and US foreign policy. His work has been published in the International Herald Tribune, World Policy Journal, the Financial Times, Mother Jones, The Jewish Daily Forward, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, and the Huffington Post.  Michael holds a master’s degree in International Relations from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in Critical Theory and Post-Colonial Studies from the New School for Social Research.