William Burke-White

Who is William Burke-White?

William Burke-White is a US-American law professor and policy advisor.

He graduated from Harvard in 1998 with an A.B. in Russian and American History and Literature and obtained a M.Phil. in international relations at Cambridge in 1999. Burke-White earned a J.D. at the Harvard Law School in 2002 and returned to Cambridge as a Fulbright Scholar where he completed his Ph.D. in international relations in 2006.

From 2003-05 he taught at Princeton University and served as special assistant to Anne-Marie Slaughter. In 2005, Burke-White became an Assistant Professor at Penn Law. Since 2009 he has been on leave to serve as a member of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State. He is the principal drafter of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review.

In 2008 Burke-White won a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He was a Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.