Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), resident in its Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Previously he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director of the International Development Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. He was formerly Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University.

Frank has written widely on concerning democratization and international political economy, including the role of culture and social capital in modern economic life, and on the social consequences of the transition to an information economy. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, has appeared in over 20 foreign editions and was awarded the Los Angeles Times' Book Critics Award as well as the Premio Capri for the Italian edition. Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity was published in 1995, The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order in 1999 and Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, in 2002. His latest books are America at a Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy, After the NeoCons, (2006); Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap between Latin America and the United States. (2008). His latest book is The Origins of Political Order (2011).