Casimir A. Yost
   Director

Howard B. Schaffer
   Deputy Director and Director of Studies

Chester A. Crocker
   James R. Schlesinger Professor

Charles Dolgas
   Director of Publications and Administration

James P. Seevers
   Director of Research

Jennifer Bookbinder
   Program Coordinator

Shayna Miller
   Program Administrator

Sara Thannhauser
   Program Officer, Schlesinger Working Group

ISD studies the practitioner's craft: how diplomats and other foreign affairs professionals succeed and the lessons to be learned from their successes and failures. Institute programs focus particular attention on the foreign policy process: how decisions are made and implemented.