Christopher M. Sands

Christopher Sands is a senior associate at CSIS, where he served as director of the Center’s Canada Project from 1995 to 2002, and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. Sands is also a senior fellow at the Center for North American Studies at American University, where he is an adjunct professor in government at the School of Public Affairs. From 2002 until 2007, Sands served as the director of strategic planning and evaluation at the International Republican Institute (IRI), a core institute of the National Endowment for Democracy and implementer of democracy and governance programs of the U.S. Agency for International Development and Department of State. He also lectured at the Foreign Service Institute of the State Department. In 2006, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Council of the Americas appointed Sands to the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section of the North American Competitiveness Council, a private-sector consultative group advising the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico in the ongoing North American Security and Prosperity Partnership negotiations. In 1999–2000, he was a Fulbright scholar and visiting fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa. Dr. Sands holds a B.A. in political science from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Canadian studies and international economics from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University.