Anne-Marie Slaughter is the CEO of New America. She is a globally recognized scholar, policy innovator, and public leader whose career spans academia, government, and civil society. She previously served as the Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department, the first woman to hold the position, Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and a professor at Harvard Law School, where she helped define the emerging field of international law and international relations.
Slaughter has written and lectured widely on foreign policy, gender equality and caregiving, and American renewal and democratic reform. She is the author or editor of nine books, including Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics (Princeton University Press, 2021), Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family (Random House, 2015), The Chessboard and the Web (Yale University Press, 2017), and A New World Order (Princeton University Press, 2004). Unfinished Business was named a best book of the year by The Washington Post, NPR, and The Economist. Her 2012 article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” in The Atlantic became the most-read piece in the magazine’s history at the time and sparked a global conversation about gender, work, and caregiving. Slaughter is a contributing editor to the Financial Times and a regular columnist for Project Syndicate.
Slaughter’s leadership has been recognized around the world. She is a recipient of France’s Legion of Honor, the Berlin Prize, and Harvard Law School’s Award for Global Leadership, among many other distinctions, and has been regularly named one of Washington’s most powerful women by The Washingtonian. She has received over a dozen honorary degrees and fellowships from leading institutions in the U.S. and abroad, and her scholarship and commentary have been cited as groundbreaking in understanding the networked nature of global power.
Slaughter received a BA from Princeton, an MPhil and DPhil in international relations from Oxford University, and a JD from Harvard Law School.