Edward Alden

Edward Alden is the Ross Distinguished Visiting Professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy, and co-author of When the World Closed its Doors: The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Future of Border Control. His first book, The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration, and Security Since 9/11, was a finalist for the Lukas Book Prize for narrative nonfiction. He has directed several CFR-sponsored independent task forces, including the 2018 report The Work Ahead: Machines, Skills, and U.S. Leadership in the Twenty-First Century and the 2009 report U.S. Immigration Policy. He was previously Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times and is a columnist for Foreign Policy.