Rachel George is Lecturer at Stanford University in the Program in International Relations. Previously, she served as Director for Education Content at the Council on Foreign Relations and Lecturing Fellow at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, and Research Fellow at ODI in London. Her work has been published in outlets including Foreign Policy, Just Security, World Politics Review, The Washington Quarterly, The National Interest, Human Rights Review, Think Global Health, and as chapters in The Arab Gulf States and the West: Perception and Misperception, Opportunities and Perils, and The Routledge History of Human Rights. Her forthcoming book explores the intersections of development and diplomacy. She holds a BA in Politics and French from Princeton University, an MA in Middle East Studies from Harvard University, and PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics & Political Science.