Dr. Alan Platt is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies where he lectures on U.S. foreign and national security policy. He also consults on these subjects and serves on four non-profit boards.
For the past 18 years, Dr. Platt has been a Principal in the Washington office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he concentrated on foreign economic and international security matters. He counseled a number of companies and universities on understanding the Executive and Legislative processes. Earlier in his career, he was Chief of the Arms Transfer Division of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Principal Foreign Policy Advisor to former U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie, a senior staff member of the RAND Corporation, a Lecturer in American Foreign Policy at Stanford University and the University of California at Los Angeles, and a Fellow at The Hoover Institution.
Dr. Platt has written three books and more than thirty articles, including Arms Control and Confidence Building in the Middle East and "Congress and Arms Control." Dr. Platt received a B.A. from Princeton University, an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. he has also studied in Grenoble, France and Bologna, Italy.