Larry Diamond

Larry Jay Diamond (born October 2, 1951) is an American political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. Diamond is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, which is Stanford University's main center for research on international issues. At the Institute Diamond served as the director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law from 2009-2016. He was succeeded in that role by Francis Fukuyama and then Kathryn Stoner.

Diamond has served as an advisor to numerous governmental and international organizations at various points in his life, including the United States Department of State, United Nations, World Bank, and U.S. Agency for International Development. He is a founding co-editor of the National Endowment for Democracy's ''Journal of Democracy'', stepping down from that role in the autumn of 2022. As of May 2023, he co-chairs Hoover's China Global Sharp Power Project (with Glenn Tiffert) and Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region Project (with James O. Ellis). Provided by Wikipedia