Fukuyama, Francis is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University and resident in FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He came to Stanford in July from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director of SAIS' International Development program. He is best known as the author of The End of History and the Last Man. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics and his Ph.D. from Harvard in political science. From 1996–2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He was a member of the political science department of the RAND Corporation and a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State. Fukuyama is a member of the President's Council on Bioethics and is a member of advisory boards for the National Endowment for Democracy, the Journal of Democracy, and the New America Foundation. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Global Business Network. He is also the author most recently of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (2011).