Chris Seiple

Chris Seiple, Ph.D., is President of the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE). Prior to coming to the Institute, he was an Earhart Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he wrote his dissertation on "U.S. - Uzbekistan Relations," receiving his Ph.D. in 2007. From 1990 to 1999 Dr. Seiple had served as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps and was assigned to the Strategic Initiatives Group. Dr. Seiple serves on the board of Wycliffe Bible Translators, USA. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (Philadelphia), a member at the Council on Foreign Relations (New York), and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London). He is Founder of IGE's Council on Faith & International Affairs and publisher of The Review of Faith and International Affairs. His book, The U.S. Military/NGO Relationship in Humanitarian Interventions, is a seminal work in the field. Dr. Seiple has spoken to various audiences on religion and realpolitik in Doha, Peshawar, Bannu, Moscow, Vladikavkaz, Hanoi, Urumchi, Oslo, and Beijing.