Francis Fukuyama is a Professor at Stanford University's Institute for International Studies and Director of the Institute's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He has previously taught at Johns Hopkins University and at George Mason University. Fukuyama was a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served as the Deputy Director for the State Department's Policy planning staff. He has also served as a member of the President's Council on Bioethics. Francis Fukuyama is the author of The End of History, Political Order and Political Decay, The Origins of Political Order, The Great Disruption, Our Posthuman Future and State Building, among others. He lives with his wife in California.