Expert Bio

Dr. George E. Bogden is a George F. Kennan Fellow at the Kennan Institute. He is also a Strategy & Policy Fellow funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation and a Senior Visiting Researcher at Bard College. Previously, he served as the German Marshall Fund’s Helmut Schmidt Fellow, based in Berlin. Before completing his graduate education, he served as an inaugural Senior Fellow at the Hungary Foundation, in residence in Budapest, as well as the first Associate Director of the Center for the Future of Liberal Society at the Hudson Institute. 

Dr. Bogden’s commentary has appeared in the GMFUS’s Paper Series, The Wall Street Journal, The American Interest, The Wavell Room, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and the Marine Corps University Press. Before defending his dissertation, he undertook a Fulbright Fellowship in Kosovo. Dr. Bogden’s research has been recognized by the Brussels Forum Young Writers Award and the Trench Gascoigne Essay Contest. After earning his B.A. from Yale, he served as the university’s Joseph C. Fox Fellow in Istanbul, completing research at Boğaziçi University. He is a Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a member of Chatham House and IISS.

Wilson Center Project

“The Origins of the Budapest Memorandum and the Future of Order in Europe”