FSI's director is Prof. Michael McFaul, the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies at Stanford and former US Ambassador to Russia.

FSI's first director was former Stanford President Richard Lyman. In 1991, Professor Walter P. Falcon was appointed director with Law Professor Thomas C. Heller as deputy director. In 1998, they were followed by David Holloway as director and Coit D. Blacker as deputy director. In 2003, Blacker succeeded Holloway as Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute. After Blacker stepped down as director in 2012, former Stanford President Gerhard Casper led FSI for one year. Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar was FSI's director from 2013-2015. 

No, but it has active programs for training and teaching both graduate and undergraduate students. The Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy is housed under FSI though the degree is granted by Humanities and Sciences.

As a university research institute, FSI does not represent any political ideology.

Rather, it provides independent scholarship that is guided by disciplinary standards of academic excellence. Our scholars produce research that meets the requirements set by peer-reviewed journals, academic presses, and granting foundations, independent of partisan political or commercial interests.

As a hub for interdisciplinary research, FSI is home to six major research centers:

• Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL)

• Stanford Health Policy (SHP)

• Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)

• The Europe Center (TEC)

• Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC)

• Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE)

It stands for the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education.

Since 1976, SPICE has served as a bridge between FSI and K–12 schools and community colleges by developing multidisciplinary curricular materials on international topics, conducting teacher professional development seminars, and teaching distance-learning courses.

The Rural Education Action Program (REAP) is an impact evaluation organization that aims to inform sound education, health and nutrition policy in China.

REAP’s goal is to help students from vulnerable communities in China enhance their human capital and overcome obstacles to education so that they can escape poverty and better contribute to China’s developing economy.

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