Spencer Boyer

Visiting Senior Fellow

Spencer P. Boyer is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations.  From August 2009 – December 2011, he served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.  Mr. Boyer’s work in the bureau focused on Western Europe, public diplomacy, and public affairs.  Prior to joining the State Department, Mr. Boyer was the Director of International Law and Diplomacy in the National Security and International Policy Department of the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based think tank. 

Mr. Boyer is a graduate of Wesleyan University and received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he specialized in public international law and the work of international organizations.  While at NYU, he also obtained a master’s degree in French Studies, with a concentration in French politics, history, and economy.  Mr. Boyer began his professional career as an Associate with the international law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, D.C.  Subsequently, he worked in The Hague as a Law Clerk to the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in Zurich as a Staff Attorney at the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, and in Paris as Counsel at the International Court of Arbitration.  He has also served as the Executive Director and War Powers Initiative Director at the Constitution Project, based at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute.

Mr. Boyer has been a guest analyst with numerous international, national, and local news outlets, including CNN, BBC, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, and Voice of America, and is widely published on foreign affairs matters.  Among other professional distinctions, Mr. Boyer served on the Independent Task Force on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and was a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School.  He is a member of the Bars of the District of Columbia, New York, and New Jersey, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

E-Mail: spencerboyer@jhu.edu