Christopher Sands Senior Research Professor Director
Christopher Sands is a Senior Research Professor and Director of the Center for Canadian Studies and also currently serving as the Interim Director of Latin American Studies at SAIS. In 2020, Professor Sands accepted a concurrent federal appointment as Director of the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. From 1993 to 2007 Sands was a fellow and director of Canada projects at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and from 2007 until 2016 he was a senior fellow and director of an Initiative on North American Competitiveness at the Hudson Institute. Professor Sands taught North American Comparative Politics at American University’s School of Public Affairs (2005-2012) and as the G. Robert Ross Distinguished Visiting Professor in the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University (2012-2017). In the 1999-2000 academic year, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Norman Peterson School of International Affairs at C...