Michael Miklaucic is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University (NDU), and the Editor-in -Chief of PRISM, NDU’s flagship journal of national and international security affairs. He is coordinator of the PRISM/INSS Distinguished Speaker Series and the Convenor of the NDU Geoeconomics Community of Interest. Mr. Miklaucic is also a member of the Academic Faculty at the University of Chicago and Adjunct Lecturer at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Previously he served in various positions at the US Agency for International Development and the Department of State, including USAID representative on the Civilian Response Corps Inter-Agency Task Force, as the Senior Program Officer in the USAID Office of Democracy and Governance, and Rule of Law Specialist in the Center for Democracy and Governance. In 2002-2003 he served as the Department of State Deputy for War Crimes Issues. In that position he was responsible for US relations with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), war crimes issues and negotiations in East Timor and Cambodia, and the early implementation of the Sudan Peace Act. He studied at the University of California, the London School of Economics, and the School for Advanced International Studies.