Craig Cohen is deputy chief of staff at CSIS and a fellow in its Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project of the International Security Program. He is also an adjunct professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School and a codirector of the CSIS Commission on Smart Power—an initiative intended to help rebuild the civilian instruments of national power and develop an integrated strategy for balancing these “soft” tools with the use of “hard” military force. At the same time, he is directing research on U.S. policy toward Pakistan, with a focus on the role aid plays in addressing conflict, instability, and growing extremism. He is author of the forthcoming CSIS report When $10 Billion Is Not Enough: Rethinking U.S. Strategy toward Pakistan.

Previously, he managed a working group on monitoring and evaluation in post-conflict settings and authored the report Measuring Progress in Reconstruction and Stabilization Operations (U.S. Institute of Peace, April 2006). Prior to joining CSIS, he worked with the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations in Rwanda, Azerbaijan, Malawi, and the former Yugoslavia. Cohen received a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and an undergraduate degree from Duke University.