Katherine Brown
Dr. Katherine Brown is the President & CEO of Global Ties U.S., the largest and oldest citizen diplomacy network in the United States.
She is also a Non-Resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies. Before joining Global Ties in 2018, Katherine was a Public Policy Manager at Facebook, Inc., where she was also in residence as a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) International Affairs Fellow. From 2013-2016, she served as the Executive Director of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State, an office authorized by Congress to appraise and strengthen U.S. engagement activities with foreign citizens. Dr. Brown previously served in the U.S. government as an assistant to the National Security Advisor at the White House, as a communications advisor at the American Embassy in Kabul, and as a Professional Staff Member at the Committee on Foreign Affairs at the U.S. House of Representatives. She also worked throughout South Asia as a Communications Manager for The Asia Foundation and as one of the original editorial staff members for Bloomberg Opinion. Dr. Brown received her Ph.D. in Communications from Columbia University in 2013 and completed her doctoral fieldwork in Afghanistan and Pakistan where she examined their news media’s effects on governance, civil society, and foreign policy. Her book, "Your Country, Our War: The Press and Diplomacy in Kabul," was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. She is a 2018-19 French American Foundation Young Leader; a member of the University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy Advisory Board, the Alliance for International Exchange Board, and the Truman National Security Project Board; and a former Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations.