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Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar is the tenth president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an institution created by Andrew Carnegie in 1910 to advise policymakers, support diplomacy, and conduct independent research on international cooperation, conflict, and governance. A former justice of the Supreme Court of California, Cuéllar has served three U.S. presidential administrations at the White House and in federal agencies and was the Stanley Morrison Professor at Stanford University, where he held appointments in law, political science, and international affairs and led the university’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He serves on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, and chairs the board of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.

As director of Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute, he oversaw the university’s major research centers and educational programs focused on governance and development, international security, health policy, climate change and food security, and contemporary Asia and Europe. Previously, he co-directed Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and led its Honors Program in International Security Studies. During nearly seven years on California’s highest court while continuing to teach at Stanford, he wrote opinions addressing separation of powers, policing and criminal justice, democracy, technology and privacy, international agreements, and climate and environmental law among other issues, and led the court system’s operations to better meet the needs of millions of limited English speakers.

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cuéllar has published widely on problems in American public law and democracy as the United States became a global power, how fast-evolving technologies like artificial intelligence affect public institutions, and how political economy shapes the administrative systems designed to manage transnational challenges such as mass migration, illicit financial activity, and public health. In the first term of the Obama administration, he led the White House Domestic Policy Council’s teams working on civil and criminal justice, public health, immigration, and regulatory reform. He also co-chaired the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity and Excellence Commission, and earlier, co-chaired the Obama Biden Transition Immigration Working Group. He began his career at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the second term of the Clinton administration.

Cuéllar serves on the boards of Inflection AI and Harvard University. Previously, he chaired the boards of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Social and Ethical Implications of Computing Research, and was a presidential appointee to the Council of the U.S. Administrative Conference. Born in Matamoros, Mexico, he grew up primarily in communities along the U.S.-Mexico border. He graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School and received a PhD in political science from Stanford University. He and his wife, Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, have two children.

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A Conversation with His Excellency Dr. S. Jaishankar, India’s External Affairs Minister
October 1, 2024

Join Carnegie’s President Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar for an in-person fireside chat with India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar, on the future of U.S.-India relations. 

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Migration Diplomacy in the Biden-Harris Administration
September 17, 2024

Join Carnegie President Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar for a discussion with President Biden’s Homeland Security Advisor, Dr. Liz Sherwood-Randall, who has played a central role in advancing the LA Declaration in the last two years. This event is organized by Carnegie’s American Statecraft program. 

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Development Is Digital: Harnessing Technology’s Potential for a Better World
July 25, 2024

Samantha Power, the nineteenth Administrator of USAID, will deliver a keynote address on how technology is perhaps the single most decisive force shaping global development today—and outline choices we can make now to minimize the risks and maximize technology's potential to improve people’s lives. Following her speech, Administrator Power will join Carnegie’s President, Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, for a fireside chat.

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Beyond Open vs. Closed: Emerging Consensus and Key Questions for Foundation AI Model Governance

Ideological conflict between “pro-open” and “anti-open” camps is receding. Carnegie gathered leading experts from a wide range of perspectives to identify common ground and help reset AI governance debates.

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Launch of Women LEAD: Women Leading Effective and Accountable Democracy in the Digital Age
July 8, 2024

On the margins of the seventy-fifth NATO summit, please join the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the National Democratic Institute for an event marking the launch of Women Leading Effective and Accountable Democracy in the Digital Age (Women LEAD), a new initiative from the Biden-Harris administration focused on advancing women’s political participation globally and addressing barriers to women’s leadership, both online and offline.

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his aerial photo taken on July 16, 2023 shows cranes and shipping containers at Lianyungang port in China's eastern Jiangsu province.
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U.S. Engagement in the Indo-Pacific: Don’t Trade Away Trade

A different approach to trade in Asia could represent a middle way between the Biden administration's current approach and the so-called Washington Consensus of old.

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2024 Carnegie Africa Forum
June 27, 2024

Join us for the inaugural Carnegie Africa Forum, a special one-day event that will bring together global thought leaders for discussions on the continent’s role in international cooperation.

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  • Zainab Usman
  • Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
  • Redi Tlhabi
  • Yinka Adegoke
  • Ambassador Elsie Kanza
  • Ambassador Sékou Berthe
  • Ambassador Alima Mahama
  • Ambassador Youssef Amrani
  • Ambassador Hilda Suka-Mafudze
  • Howard French
  • Raul Alfaro Pelico
  • Katie Auth
  • Professor Yemi Osinbajo
  • Nanjala Nyabola
  • Vincent Makori
  • Bright Simons
  • Hannah Ryder
  • Yacouba Sissoko
  • Jennifer Strong
  • Jane Munga
  • Nicholas Bramble
  • Alex Tsado
  • Julian Pecquet
  • Ambassador Jendayi Frazer
  • Ambassador Tibor Nagy
  • Ambassador Johnnie Carson
  • Ambassador Herman Cohen
  • Jonathan Oppenheimer
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Non-state Actors and Geopolitical Rivalry
April 30, 2024

Join the Carnegie Endowment for a discussion of how societies can manage the risks non-state actors pose as countries navigate challenges involving security, governance, and the well-being of their populations with Daniel Byman, Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, Beatriz Magaloni, and Rachel Kleinfeld.

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Disinformation, Journalism, and Technology: A Conversation with Katherine Maher
April 17, 2024

Join an important discussion on countering disinformation with Katherine Maher, the president and CEO of National Public Radio and the former CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation.