Sarah Sewall is the Speyer Family Foundation Distinguished Scholar at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. She served as Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights from 2014 a 2017 and was the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping during the Clinton Administration. She has taught at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, directed the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and held the Minerva Chair at the U.S. Naval War College.