Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

Dean Robert L. Gallucci

The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is the centerpiece of Georgetown University's commitment to educate students for careers in the international arena.

Pioneering innovations

Today, almost a century after its founding, I am proud to lead a school that is at the forefront of international affairs education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We were the first university in the United States to develop a liberal arts undergraduate program focused on international affairs and approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. Our six world-class master's degree programs help train tomorrow's leaders to meet and master the challenges as well as seize the opportunities of a complex and changing international environment. All of our students benefit from our outstanding faculty — world-class scholars and practitioners — and the wealth of resources in the nation's capital.

Contemporary Challenges

Now, more than ever, I believe we need to prepare our students for a world in which change is a constant: new actors are altering the fundamental nature of power politics, globalization is strengthening some societies and rendering others more fragile; innovations in technology affect virtually every aspect of our lives. Age-old issues of war and peace, religious tolerance and ethnic conflict compete for our attention alongside newer threats — environmental and epidemiological catastrophes, bio- and cyber-terrorism.

Tomorrow's Leaders

We are helping our students understand these phenomena. Our graduates hold leadership positions around the globe in the private sector, government, and international and nongovernmental organizations. They are testimony to the strength of the Georgetown heritage and the quality of our interdisciplinary programs of study.

To be part of the School of Foreign Service community is to participate in the shaping of international affairs in the century ahead.