Lise Morjé Howard is a professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University, where she teaches and conducts research on issues of war and peace. She is also chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). In 2022–2023, she was on leave from Georgetown to serve as a senior fellow in residence at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), conducting research on the war between Russia and Ukraine. Dr Howard received her BA in Soviet Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She studied philology and Soviet constitutional law at Leningrad State/Saint Petersburg State University during the collapse of the constitutional order. She also holds a degree in French studies, second degree with honours, from Grenoble III. She received one-year fellowships at Stanford University and Harvard University. She is the author of two award-winning books on different aspects of United Nations peacekeeping, both published by Cambridge University Press. She has conducted fieldwork in conflict zones in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Eurasia. Her scholarly articles have been published in International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, and The British Journal of Political Science. Her essays have appeared in numerous media outlets, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Conversation, and the Journal of Democracy. She is fluent in French and Russian. Before beginning her graduate studies, she served as interim director of United Nations affairs for the New York City Commission on the United Nations. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area and spends her summers with her family in Cabourg, France.