Dr. Alan Platt

Dr. Alan Platt

Dr. Alan Platt is a retired Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and was previously a Principal in the Washington office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. His career spans almost 50 years, focused on foreign economic and international security matters, particularly the executive and legislative branch processes. At SAIS, Dr. Platt lectured on U.S. foreign and national security policy. For the preceding 18 years, he was a Principal in the Washington office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Prior to that, he served as Chief of the Arms Transfer Division of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Principal Foreign Policy Advisor to former Senator Edmund Muskie (ME), senior staff member of The RAND Corporation, and Fellow at The Hoover Institution.

Dr. Platt has written three books, including Arms Control and Confidence Building in the Middle East and Congress and Arms Control, and more than 30 articles on national security and international economic issues. He received his B.A. from Princeton University, his M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and his Ph.D. from Columbia University.