Derek Shearer
Stuart Chevalier Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
Shearer served in the Clinton administration as an economics official in the Commerce Department, then as ambassador to Finland (1994-97).
Contact
- Office: Library
- Email: dshearer@oxy.edu
- Phone: (323) 259-1459
- Website: college.oxy.edu/globalaffairs/
Education: BA, Yale University; PhD, The Union Graduate School
After diplomatic service, Shearer was a fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute and the Woodrow Wilson Scholars Center. He also was a visiting Woodrow Wilson fellow and ambassador-in-residence at a number of colleges. He served as a foreign policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 presidential campaign and as an advisor to Sen. Hillary Clinton during the 2007-08 presidential primaries.
Shearer's articles on foreign affairs and public policy have appeared in The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He has written many scholarly and policy articles and lectured at leading universities in Europe, Asia, and Australia. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a U.S.-Japan Leadership Fellowship, and a Swedish Bicentennial Fellowship, among other honors.