Francis Fukuyama Keynote Speaker

  • Leading expert on democratisation and global political economy
  • Former adviser to the US Government
  • Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Francis Fukuyama's Biography

Prof. Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a faculty member of FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL).  He is also Director of Stanford’s Masters in International Policy Program, and a professor (by courtesy) of Political Science.

Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics.  His 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man, has appeared in over twenty foreign editions.   His most recent book,  Liberalism and Its Discontents, was published in 2022.

Francis received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science.  He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation,  and of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State.  From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, and from 2001-2010 he was Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.  He served as a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2004.

Dr. Fukuyama holds honorary doctorates from Connecticut College, Doane College, Doshisha University (Japan), Kansai University (Japan), and Aarhus University (Denmark), and the Pardee Rand Graduate School.  He is a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.  He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rand Corporation, the Board of Governors of the Pardee Rand Graduate School, the Board of Trustees of Freedom House, and the Board of the Volcker Alliance.  He is a member of the American Political Science Association and the Council on Foreign Relations

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Videos of Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama on Democracy
Francis Fukuyama on Democracy
"Why Public Administration gets no Respect, but should" (2013)

Books by Francis Fukuyama

Liberalism and Its Discontents: Francis Fukuyama
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition
The End of History and the Last Man

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