Stephen Stedman is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, professor, by courtesy, of political science, and deputy director of the Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law. Stephen currently serves as the Secretary General of the Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age, and is the principal drafter of the Commission's report, Protecting Electoral Integrity in the Digital Age, released in January 2020. From 2003 to 2005 Stephen served as research director of the United Nations (U.N.) High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change, and special adviser and assistant secretary general of the United Nations. During his time there, he was principal drafter of the Panel's report, A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, and helped to create the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission, the U.N.'s Peacebuilding Support Office, the U.N.'s Mediation Support Office, the Secretary's General's Policy Committee, and the U.N.'s counterterrorism strategy. During 2005 his office successfully negotiated General Assembly approval of the Responsibility to Protect. From 2010 to 2012, he chaired the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy, and Security, an international body mandated to promote and protect the integrity of elections worldwide, and drafted the Commission's report, Deepening Democracy: A Strategy for Improving the Integrity of Elections Worldwide. Stephen's research covers a wide variety of topics, including negotiation and implementation of peace agreements in civil wars, United Nations peacekeeping, United Nations reform, American foreign policy, electoral integrity, and the meaning of security. He served as Chair of the Stanford Faculty Senate in 2018-2019. He and his wife, Corinne Thomas, are the Resident Fellows in Crothers, Stanford's academic theme house for Global Citizenship. In 2018, Stephen was awarded the Lloyd B. Dinkelspiel Award for outstanding service to undergraduate education at Stanford. Stephen received a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University.