Master of Science in Foreign Service

Ray Salvatore Jennings is a practitioner scholar with extensive experience within war to peace transitions in over 20 countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, Indonesia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Peru, and Sierra Leone. Over the last twenty years, he has served as country director and senior consultant with the United States Institute of Peace, the United Nations, the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, and many non-governmental organizations. He has been a Senior Fellow with the United States Institute of Peace in 2002-2003, as well as a Public Policy Scholar and an Eastern European Research Scholar with the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington, DC in 2006 and 2007. He is currently a Visiting Researcher with Stanford University’s Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and is teaching transitional development at Georgetown and Syracuse Universities. Jennings current work also includes serving as a social development consultant with the World Bank on Middle East and North African affairs. He is the author of numerous publications and his media appearances include CNN, CBS, CSPAN, NPR and the BBC.