Christopher Sands is Director of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê’s Canada Institute, the largest policy research program on Canada outside Canada and the leading source of scholarship on US-Canadian relations in Washington, DC. Dr. Sands previously directed applied policy research programs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Hudson Institute and has published extensively over a career of more than 30 years in Washington think tanks.
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Christopher Sands, Director of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê’s Canada Institute, is a specialist on Canada, US-Canadian relations, and North American economic integration. He is the co-host of the Canusa Street podcast and a regular panelist on °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê’s Americas 360 podcast. His most recent book, co-edited with David M. Thomas, is . Dr. Sands is a board member of the , the , the and the . He was a founding member and officer of the Canadian Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and he is a member of the editorial board for the .
Dr. Sands is a Lecturer at the J and directs the Hopkins Center for Canadian Studies. He is a Lecturer and Course Coordinator of the Canada Seminar at the US Department of State. Prior to joining °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê, he taught in the and in the . In 1999-2000 he received a Fulbright scholarship to work on his doctoral dissertation at the , and in 2019 he was named a Senior Fellow of . Although frequently mistaken for a Canadian, he was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan.
