Jennifer Lind is a Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies. She is a Fellow in the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future (a network for leading US-based Japan specialists, run by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership). Lind has worked as a consultant for RAND and for the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense, and has lived and worked in Japan.

Lind received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master’s in Pacific International Affairs from the University of California, San Diego, and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics, a book that examines the effect of war memory on international reconciliation (Cornell University Press, 2008). She has also authored scholarly articles in International Security and International Studies Quarterly, and writes for wider audiences within the Atlantic and Foreign Affairs. She has been quoted and interviewed by PBS Newshour, National Public Radio, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal.