Founder and Executive Director, American Foreign Policy Project
Professor, University of Connecticut Law School

Richard W. Parker is a professor at University of Connecticut School of Law and Founder and Executive Director of the new American Foreign Policy Project (AFPP). AFPP convenes large, inter-disciplinary teams of top experts to collaboratively develop sound policy and effective messages on the toughest national security and foreign policy issues of the day, beginning with Iran. Dr. Parker has formerly served as Assistant General Counsel at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, as Special Counsel to the Deputy Administrator of EPA, and a reserve officer in the U.S. Army (Military Intelligence). He holds a B.A. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a D.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.