Dr. Ronald L. Tammen is President of the TransResearch Consortium, a coalition of senior world politics scholars. He is professor emeritus at the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University and Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University. From 2000 to 2015, he served as the Founding Director of the Hatfield School leading it through an unprecedented expansion.
Prior to Portland State he was Department Chair and Associate Dean at the National War College in Washington, D.C. The National War College is the federal government’s premier educational institution for senior State Department, Defense Department and select international officials. In a previous position, Dr. Tammen was Chief of Staff to Senator William Proxmire (D-Wis). Proxmire served as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, the Joint Economic Committee and several Subcommittees of the Appropriations Committee. Dr. Tammen also served as a Staff Consultant to the Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus led by Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR).
In the private sector, Dr. Tammen was managing partner of Potomac Partners, a national public relations and lobbying firm based in Washington, D.C. that represented major clients in the banking, aerospace, food, environment, and technology arenas.
Dr. Tammen also served as a strategic weapons analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Dr. Tammen holds a BA in political science from Pacific University, a MA and Ph.D. in political science (world politics) from the University of Michigan and certificates from Reed College and the National War College. He has lectured widely in the United States and abroad; has led official delegations to over 30 countries; and is a frequent guest analyst on radio and television.
His research interests center on world politics with an emphasis on the emergence of China and India as global powers. He has authored, coauthored or edited five national security related books plus numerous articles in several languages. He is a recognized authority on power transition theory.