Christopher Sands

Christopher Sands is a policy scholar who writes about Canada, U.S.-Canadian relations, North American political economy, and Canadian foreign policy as it intersects with U.S. national interests. Over more than thirty years he has directed research on these topics for several think tanks including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Hudson Institute, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is an adjunct lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies where he also directs the Hopkins Center for Canadian Studies, founded by Canadian Nobel Laureate in Economics Robert Mundell in 1960. Previously, he taught in the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University and the School of Public Affairs at American University. He holds a B.A in political science from Macalester College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins. Although frequently mistaken for a Canadian, he was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan.