Gideon Rose is the newly appointed Editor of Foreign Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University, and served as Associate Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council from 1994 to 1995. In 1996, he joined Princeton's Politics Department as a lecturer on American foreign policy, before holding a similar position at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia. He was an Olin Senior Fellow and the Deputy Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1995 to 2000 when he was appointed Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs.

Rose will speak about President Obama and American Foreign Policy.