Rachel Kleinfeld

Rachel Kleinfeld

Senior Fellow, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Socrates Program

Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld advises governments, philanthropists, and organizations on how democracies make major social change. As a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, she particularly focuses on countries facing violence, corruption, and other problems of poor governance. She was named one of the top 40 Under 40 Political Leaders in America by Time magazine in 2010, for her decade spent as the founding CEO of the Truman National Security Project. In 2011, Secretary Clinton appointed Rachel to the Foreign Affairs Policy Board, which advises the Secretary of State quarterly, a role she served through 2014.  She has published three books, birthed two wonderfully fierce daughters, and while she works in Washington, D.C., she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her husband Will Clift, a sculptor.