John Gershman
Clinical Professor of Public Service, Director of International Specialization, Co-Director of Capstone Program
John Gershman is a Clinical Professor of Public Service, Director of the International Specialization, and Director of International Capstone Programs at Wagner. He is co-director of the NYU Democracy Project and director of the NYU Democracy Scholars program. He is also a co-founder of the New York Southeast Asia Network and a member of the steering committee of Sulo: the Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU. He has worked at a series of nonprofit think tanks since the early 1990s, including the Institute for Food and Development Policy, Partners in Health, and served as Co-Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. His research, writing, and advocacy work has focused on issues of democracy, food security, U.S. foreign policy in East and Southeast Asia, the politics of international financial institutions and multilateralism, the political economy of natural resource management in Ghana and the Philippines, and rights-based approaches to development.