Edward Fishman

Edward Fishman is a leading authority on economic statecraft and sanctions. He teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and is a senior research scholar at its Center on Global Energy Policy. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare. Between 2011 and 2017 he held senior roles across the United States government, serving on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, leading Russia and Europe work in the State Department’s sanctions office, advising the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, and working at the Treasury Department. He holds degrees from Yale, Cambridge and Stanford.