Dr. Douglas M. Johnston

President
International Center for Religion & Diplomacy

http://www.icrd.org/

Douglas M. Johnston is president and founder of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy. Prior to his current position, Dr. Johnston served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he directed the CSIS project on Religion and Conflict Resolution. In that capacity, he was principal author and editor of Religion, the Missing Dimension of Statecraft (Oxford University Press, 1994), a path-breaking work now going into its tenth printing and second foreign language translation. He also authored Foreign Policy into the 21st Century: The U.S. Leadership Challenge (CSIS, 1996).

Among his government assignments, Dr. Johnston has been Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for manpower, Director of Policy Planning and Management in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and planning officer with the President's Office of Emergency Preparedness. He has taught courses in international affairs and security at Harvard University and was the founder and director of the university's Executive Program in National and International Security. Dr. Johnston served for ten years in the submarine service and, at the age of 27, was the youngest officer in the Navy to qualify for command of a nuclear submarine. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.