Chris Kojim, professor of the practice of international affairs, former senior adviser to the Iraq Study Group and the deputy director of the 9/11 Commission, was named director of the University’s Master of International Policy and Practice, according to a news release.
Kojim, who joined the faculty after a stint as a visiting professor from Princeton University, has served as the deputy assistant secretary of state for intelligence policy and coordination at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, a staffer on the house Foreign Affairs Committee and the director of the University’s U.S. Foreign Policy Summer Institute.
“In its first 10 years, the MIPP program has had great success in providing its students with an excellent academic complement to their professional experience,” Kojim said in the news release. “I look forward to building upon that tradition.”
The MIPP program was established in 1998 as a program within the Elliott School, and offers professionals the training to solve international problems of the 21stcentury. Michael Brown, dean of the Elliott School, said the school is very excited to have Kojim “at the helm of the MIPP program.”
“(Kojim’s) work with the Iraq Study Group and the 9/11 Commission gives him extraordinary insight into some of the most important international affairs challenges facing the United Statues and the world today,” Brown said in the news release. “His expertise and experience will be huge assets to the program.
