Dr. Christopher Ford is a Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Pharos Foundation in Oxford. He serves on the advisory boards of the American Foreign Policy Council and the National Security Institute at George Mason University. Ford has been a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and held leadership roles at the MITRE Corporation. From 2018 to 2021, he was Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, with prior senior positions in the US government. Educated at Harvard, Yale and Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he has worked on five US Senate committees, been a think tank scholar and served as a US Navy intelligence officer. He enjoys exercise, Japanese jujitsu, zen meditation and punting in Oxford.