Sharyl Cross

Teaches at World Affairs Council of Greater Houston

Sharyl Cross, Ph.D. is Director of the Kozmetsky Center at St. Edward's University in Austin and Global Policy Scholar at the Kennan Institute Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. Previously, she was Professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany, and served in key leadership capacities for the Marshall Center’s strategic outreach engagement initiatives in Russia, Eurasia and South East Europe. Cross also routinely lectured on NATO-Russia security issues for courses at the NATO School in Oberammergau. 

She is also a former Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the United States Air Force Academy and a resident Senior Fulbright Scholar in Moscow serving on the faculty of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO) and Institute of USA and Canada Studies in the Russian Academy of Sciences. Cross earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from U.C.L.A. and was a resident fellowship scholar and consultant at the RAND Corporation. She is currently completing her next book, China, Russia, and Twenty First Century Global Geopolitics.