Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld

Senior Fellow

Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld advises governments, philanthropists, and activists on how democracies make major social change.

Raised in Alaska, Rachel received her B.A. from Yale University and her D.Phil. from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

As a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Rachel focuses on how global democracies facing polarization and violence can improve—including the United States.

Rachel serves on the Boards of the National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, and States United for Democracy. She advises the Democracy Funders Network and is a member of the National Task Force on Election Crises.

As founding CEO of the Truman National Security Project, Rachel was named one of the top 40 political leaders under 40 in America by Time Magazine. From 2011-2014, she served on the Foreign Affairs Policy Board, which briefs the Secretary of State quarterly. Author of 3 books, Rachel's TED talk on violent democracies was translated into 17 languages and viewed over a million times.