Linda Robinson

Linda Robinson is senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign  Relations (CFR) where she writes about women’s political and economic leadership, the  relationship between gender equality and democracy, technology-facilitated violence, and  current international affairs. She was previously a senior international researcher and director of  the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation. She has also been a fellow at  the Wilson Center, the Merrill Center at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International  Studies, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard.  A former foreign correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and senior editor at Foreign  Affairs, Ms. Robinson provides frequent commentary on international affairs and U.S. foreign  policy. Her books include Masters of Chaos, a New York Times bestseller; Tell Me How This  Ends, a Foreign Affairs bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book of 2008; One Hundred  Victories, about Afghanistan; and Intervention or Neglect, about Central America. She received  the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defense and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for  reporting on Latin America. She served as Chair of the U.S. Army War College Board of  Visitors and in other government advisory positions and has testified before Congress on  multiple topics including special operations, the Iraq war, and the Middle East. She is writing a  book about the current cohort of women political leaders.