Elizabeth Prodromou

Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou is a Professor in the International Studies Program at Boston College and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. She is an internationally recognized expert on global Orthodox Christianity; she was a diplomat on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (2004-2012), served as a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Religion & Foreign Policy Working Group (2011-2015), and was a delegate consultant of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the Holy and Great Council at Crete in 2016. She advises international organizations and institutions such as the European External Action Service and the International Negotiators Working Group, on religious literacy, security, and human rights, and she directs leadership training programs for faith-based institutions. With her PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), her academic research concentrates on the intersection of geopolitics, religion, democracy, and human rights. Widely published in academic and policy journals, she is on the editorial board of the Review of Faith & International Affairs. She is a member of the Global Academic Council of the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Secretariat and she co-chairs the International Relations section of the International Orthodox Theological Association.