Dr. Alan Platt is a retired Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and was previously a Principal in the Washington office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. His career spans almost 50 years, and has focused on foreign economic and international security matters, particularly the Executive and Legislative processes.

Dr. Alan Platt is a retired Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where he lectured on U.S. foreign and national security policy.

For the preceding 18 years, Dr. Platt was a Principal in the Washington office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Prior to that, he was Chief of the Arms Transfer Division of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the principal foreign policy advisor to former Senator Edmund Muskie, a senior staff member of The RAND Corporation, and a Fellow at The Hoover Institution.

His work has focused on foreign economic and international security matters, with particular knowledge of the Executive and Legislative processes.

He has written three books, including Arms Control and Confidence Building in the Middle East, and Congress and Arms Control, and more than 30 articles on national security and international economic issues. He has given lectures in more than 60 countries around the world.

Dr. Platt received his B.A. from Princeton University, his M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.