CDDRL Faculty and Researchers
Leadership
Kathryn Stoner
Hesham Sallam
Cheng Huynh
- Program Manager, Fisher Family Summer Fellows on Democracy and Development
Encina Hall
616 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Laura Jakli
- CDDRL Predoctoral Fellow, 2018-20
- Fellow, Program on Democracy and the Internet, 2018-20
Hakeem Jefferson
- Assistant Professor, Political Science
- CDDRL Affiliated Faculty
Erik Jensen
- Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School
- Director of the Rule of Law Program, Stanford Law School
- CDDRL Affiliated Faculty
CDDRL
Stanford University
Encina Hall, C144
616 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Saumitra Jha
- Associate Professor of Political Economy, GSB
- Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Economics and of Political Science
- Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
- Dan C. Chung Faculty Scholar at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
- Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Shannon Johnson
- CDDRL Administrative Associate
- TEC Administrative Associate
Encina Hall
616 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305-6165
Emil Kamalov
- SURF Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-26
Encina Hall, E110
616 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Oliver Kaplan
- Associate Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver
- CDDRL Visiting Scholar, 2025-26
Encina Hall, C151
616 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra
- Gerhard Casper Postdoctoral Fellow in Rule of Law, 2022-2023
Marisa Kellam
- CDDRL Visiting Scholar, 2021-23
Encina Hall
616 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Sanjeev Khagram
- CDDRL Visiting Scholar, 2025-26
- CISAC Visiting Scholar, 2024-25
Ben Kinder
- CDDRL Honors Student, 2025-26
Stephen Kotkin
- Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
- Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Stephen D. Krasner
- Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Emeritus
- Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations
- Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Emeritus
CDDRL
Stanford University
Encina Hall
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Nicholas Kuipers
- CDDRL Predoctoral Scholar, 2021-22
Didi Kuo
- Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Encina Hall, C150
616 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305
Ariana Lee
- CDDRL Honors Student, 2026-27
Margaret Levi
- Professor Emerita of Political Science
- Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies, University of Washington
- Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
- Faculty Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford
- Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
- Co-director, Stanford Ethics, Society and Technology Hub
Encina Hall West, Room 306
417 Galvez Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Adeline (Pinyu) Liao
- CDDRL Honors Student, 2026-27
Stephen P. Luby
- Faculty Lead, Center for Human and Planetary Health
- Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
- Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health (by courtesy)
- Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
- Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
- Faculty Affiliate at the Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions
- Director of Research, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
- Affiliated faculty at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law
Y2E2
473 Via Ortega
Stanford, CA 94305
Johannes Ludewig
- CDDRL Visiting Scholar, 2022
Hans Lueders
- Hoover Fellow, Hoover Institution
- CDDRL Affiliated Scholar
- CDDRL Postdoctoral Scholar, 2021-22
Beatriz Magaloni
- Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
- Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations
- Professor of Political Science
- Director, Poverty, Violence, and Governance Lab
- Co-director, Democracy Action Lab
Dept. of Political Science
Encina Hall, Room 436
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
Amichai Magen
- Director, Jan Koum Israel Studies Program, CDDRL
- Senior Research Scholar, CDDRL
- Visiting Fellow in Israel Studies, FSI (2022-2025)
- W. Glenn Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution (2008-2009)
- CDDRL Affiliated Scholar, 2008-2009
- CDDRL Predoctoral Fellow, 2004-2008
Stanislav Markus
- CDDRL Visiting Scholar, 2023
- Associate Professor of International Business, University of South Carolina
- Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University