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.
In May 2014 he was appointed as the Inaugural Perry Professor and Director of Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania.