Walter Russell Mead is a distinguished fellow in Method and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute. He holds the position of the International View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal and is also the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College in New York. On top of that, he is a member of Aspen Institute Italy and serves as a board member of Aspenia. Prior to his time at Hudson, Mead was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, exactly where he held the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy position.

Mead is an achieved author, getting written quite a few books, which includes the extensively-recognized Unique Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the Globe (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004). He is presently operating on his upcoming book titled The Arc of A Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Future of the Jewish Individuals.