Christopher Sands

Christopher Sands is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. specializing on US-Canada relations and North American economic integration.  He is also an adjunct professor in the Center for Canadian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and in the Department of Government at American University. He is a senior fellow in the American University Center for North American Studies and a senior associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In 2009 he was the author of Toward a New Frontier: Improving the U.S.-Canadian Border  published by the  Brookings Institution, and is currently working with the Metropolitan Policy program at Brookings on a study of technology transfer, manufacturing innovation and the future of the automotive economy in North America.  He lectures at the Foreign Service Institute of the US Department of State and for the US Department of Homeland Security.

In 1999-2000, Sands was a Fulbright Scholar and visiting fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa. Dr. Sands holds a B.A. in political science from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Canadian studies and international economics from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, and the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States.