Ellen Bork

Board Member

Ellen Bork writes about American foreign policy with a focus on democracy and human rights.

She has served in positions at the State Department, on Capitol Hill, at Freedom House and the George W. Bush Institute.

Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Miami Herald, the Hill, the American Interest, The New Republic, the Dispatch, the Bulwark and Foreign Policy. For the Bush Institute she wrote a column about political prisoners including several in Russia, occupied Crimea and Belarus.

Ms. Bork has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and on panels at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Hudson Institute and other think tanks. She contributed a chapter to The Rise of China: Essays on the Future Competition and to a collection of essays about the sanctions regime named for Sergei Magnitsky.

Ms. Bork received an undergraduate degree from Yale University and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.