Dr Charles Edel

Charles Edel is a senior adviser and Australia Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He previously taught at the University of Sydney, where he was also a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre. Prior to that, Dr. Edel was a professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College and served on the U.S. secretary of state’s Policy Planning Staff from 2015 to 2017. He has also been a global fellow at the Wilson Center and a Henry Luce scholar at Peking University’s Center for International and Strategic Studies. He is the coauthor of The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order (Yale University Press, 2019) and author of Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic (Harvard University Press, 2014). Dr. Edel holds a PhD in history from Yale University and received a BA in classics from Yale College.