Dr. PATRICK MENDIS serves as the Vice President of Academic Affairs at the Osgood Center for International Studies and is a Visiting Scholar in Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins University’s Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. An Adjunct Professor of Diplomacy at Norwich University and a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Mendis is an alumnus of the Harvard Executive Leadership Program at the Kennedy School of Government and the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. He and his family live in Virginia.