Nadine Farid Johnson is a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and an attorney and former U.S. diplomat with extensive experience in geopolitics and public policy. Her areas of expertise include free expression, democracy and good governance, and technology policy.

Nadine has lived and worked on four continents. At the State Department, her remit included U.S. multilateral policy and UN Special Missions engagement in conflict zones in the Middle East, security and environmental concerns in the Levant and Iraq, and issues of fraud and illegal smuggling operations in West Africa.

Nadine has testified before Congress as a constitutional expert. Her civil society and advocacy leadership includes serving as the Managing Director for Washington and Free Expression Programs for PEN America, leading engagement with governments in the foreign policy, tech policy, and domestic policy spheres and, previously, as the Executive Director of the ACLU of Kansas. A frequent media contributor, her commentary has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, World Politics Review, Al-Jazeera English, and other national and international publications.

A former professor of law, Nadine began her academic career as a Harvard Law School Climenko Fellow. She is a graduate of DePauw University and Tulane Law School, and studied at the U.S. Naval War College.