Kiron K. Skinner — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Taube Family Chair Professor of International Relations and Politics at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy
Served as Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State in the first Trump administration
Co-authored New York Times bestsellers 'In His Own Hand' (2001) and 'Reagan, a Life in Letters' (2003)
W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University
Appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Security Education Board in 2005
Earned MA and PhD in political science and international relations from Harvard University

Biography

Kiron K. Skinner is an American political scientist and the Taube Family Chair Professor of International Relations and Politics at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, where she teaches graduate courses in national security and public leadership. She previously held the position of Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State during the first Trump administration.