Lise Morjé Howard is a Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and President of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). In 2022-23, she will be on leave from Georgetown, serving as Senior Fellow in Residence at the U.S. Institute of Peace. She has written two award-winning books about different aspects of United Nations peacekeeping, both published by Cambridge University Press, as well as award-winning scholarly articles about civil war termination, the UN Security Council, and American foreign policy. Dr. Howard earned her master's and doctoral degrees in Political Science from the University of California-Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree in Soviet Studies from Barnard College of Columbia University. She holds French and American passports and is fluent in English and French. She also speaks Russian, having studied Soviet Constitutional Law in Leningrad/St. Petersburg from 1990-1992, during the collapse of the Soviet. She has held yearlong fellowships at Stanford University, Harvard University, and the University of Maryland College Park. The title of her most recent book is Power in Peacekeeping, which won the Best Security Studies Book Award from the International Studies Association.