Andrew Erdmann is a management consultant. His client experience includes work in the retail, energy, and public sectors. Between 2001 and 2005 he served with the US government as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff; senior advisor to the Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research with the Coalition Provisional Authority and, lastly, director for Iran, Iraq, and Strategic Planning on the National Security Council staff. Trained as a historian of US foreign relations, he has also taught international affairs at Harvard and George Washington University. Suzanne Nossel founded the Democracy Arsenal weblog and writes a column on foreign policy for The New Republic online. She has served as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the Century Foundation. During the Clinton administration she was deputy to the ambassador for UN Management and Reform under Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Nossel has also served as masthead vice president of Sales Strategy and Operations for The Wall Street Journal, as vice president of Strategy and Business Development for Bertelsmann, Inc., and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. She currently serves as chief of operations for a large global NGO.

Andrew Erdmann

Papers

Are We All Nation-Builders Now?