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Fukuyama was born on October 27, 1952, in Chicago. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from [[Harvard]] in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the [[RAND Corporation]] from 1979-1980, then again from 1983-89, and from 1995-96. In 1981-82 and in 1989 he was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State, the first time as a regular member specializing in Middle East affairs, and then as Deputy Director for European political-military affairs. In 1981-82 he was also a member of the US delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy. From 1996-2000 he was [[Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy]] at the School of Public Policy at [[George Mason University.]]

Dr. Fukuyama is a member of the [[President's Council on Bioethics]] and is a member of advisory boards for the [[National Endowment for Democracy]], the The [[National Interest]], the [[Journal of Democracy]], and the [[The New America Foundation]]. He is a member of the [[American Political Science Association]], the [[Council on Foreign Relations]], the [[Pacific Council on International Policy]], and the [[Global Business Network]]. He is also the author of ''Trust:  The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity'' (1995), ''The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order'' (1999), ''Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution'' (2002), and ''State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century'' (2004).

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