Research field
United States of America, grand strategy, Trans-Atlantic relations, U.S.-China relations
Dr. Zoltán Fehér is a diplomat-scholar and geostrategist, currently working as a Nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub, a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for American Studies at the University of Public Service – Hungary, and an Associate Research Fellow at the Hungarian Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade. He holds a Master of Arts in Political Science and a Master of Arts in American History from Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), a Law degree (J.D.) from Pázmány Catholic University (Budapest), a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University, and a PhD in International Relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He has studied International Relations with Stephen Walt, Richard Rosecrance, Robert Pfaltzgraff, Niall Ferguson, and Nicholas Burns, among others. Previously, he worked as a professional diplomat for Hungary for 12 years, serving as foreign policy analyst and press attaché at the Hungarian embassy in Washington DC, and later as Hungary’s Deputy Ambassador and Acting Ambassador in Turkey.
He has taught Political Science and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Summer School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ivy League Summer Institute (at the Harvard Law School), Eötvös Loránd University, and Pázmány Péter Catholic University. In 2016, he served as a teaching assistant to Joseph Nye at the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2021-2022, he was an America in the World Consortium Predoctoral Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin and a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow with the Notre Dame International Security Center at the University of Notre Dame. In 2020-2022, he was a World Politics and Statecraft Fellow with the Smith Richardson Foundation.