Aspen Ideas Festival

Nicholas Burns

Nicholas Burns is professor of the practice of diplomacy and international politics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is faculty chair of the school’s Middle East Initiative and India and South Asia Program and is director of the Future of Diplomacy Project. He writes a bi-weekly foreign affairs column for The Boston Globe and is a senior foreign affairs correspondent for GlobalPost. He is also director of the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Strategy Group and a senior counselor at the Cohen Group. 

  • 2013 Bio

Videos/Audio of Nicholas Burns

What Are the World's Crisis Spots?
What's at stake politically in several of the world's hot spots including Egypt, Syria, Iran, and Pakistan? See more
Arab Spring: 18 Months Later
Where are we 18 months in? Could an observer of the Arab World two years ago have envisioned a presidential election in... See more
Where Do We Go Next with US Foreign Policy?
Nicholas Burns Robert Kagan James Steinberg Moderator: Jeffrey Goldberg See more
9/11, The United Kingdom, and the Future
A discussion of the aftershocks over the past decade—foreign and domestic, political and cultural. See more
After the “Arab Spring”
In the wake of the incredible changes across the Arab world, Nicholas Burns, director of the Aspen Strategy Group,... See more