Seth Kaplan

A Professorial Lecturer at Johns Hopkins SAIS, Dr. Kaplan has spent over 10 years working on fragile states. Mr. Kaplan is the author of two books on the subject, Betrayed: Promoting Inclusive Development in Fragile States and Fixing Fragile States: A New Paradigm for Development, and manages the website http://www.fragilestates.org/. He has published widely in newspapers and journals such as the Washington Quarterly, Orbis, Harvard International Review, Middle East Policy, Journal of Democracy, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times. Dr. Kaplan has 20 years on-the-ground experience managing projects in developing countries; visited over sixty countries, and done research in countries as disparate as Somalia, Yemen, Bolivia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Syria; and lived overseas 15 years, including in China, Japan, Nigeria, Turkey, and Israel.