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Robert S. Leiken

Robert S. Leiken is the Director of the Immigration and National Security Programs at The Nixon Center, as well as a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and President of New Moment, Inc.

His most recent publication is Enchilada Lite: A Post-9/11 Mexican Migration Agreement published by the Center for Immigration Studies (www.cis.org). A summary called "An Immigration Bargain" was published by the Boston Globe and is available at www.nixoncenter.org.

Mr. Leiken worked for a decade in Mexico where he was Professor of Economic History at C.I.D.E. [Center for Economic Investigation and Instruction] and at the National Agricultural University. He is currently writing a book on Mexico for the Brookings Institution.

Mr. Leiken has been Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Research Associate at Harvard's Center for International Affairs, Senior Fellow at C.S.I.S. and Fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies and has taught at MIT, Boston University and Boston College.

Mr. Leiken was the Executive Director of the Advisory Panel on Radio Marti and Television Marti established by the United States Congress in November 1993.

He is the author and editor of several books including The Melting Border: Mexico and Mexican Communities in the United States (CEOUSA.ORG); Why Nicaragua Vanished: A Story of Reporters and Revolution (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming); Central America: Anatomy of Conflict, The Central American Crisis Reader (Summit) and A New Moment in the Americas (forward by Vice-President Al Gore). His commentaries have appeared in the major newspapers and his reports and essays in Foreign Affairs, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, The Washington Quarterly, Current History, The Journal of Democracy, The Times Literary Supplement, Commentary, Washington Post Outlook and The Political Science Quarterly. He has written research papers and consulted for the World Bank and USAID and the Inter-American Development Bank. He has testified frequently to both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Mr. Leiken’s work has been cited in two speeches of President Ronald Reagan and in several Congressional debates. He has been the subject of profiles in Time, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, and The National Journal.

Mr. Leiken graduated Harvard College Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa and received his doctorate from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.