Schwartz has 25 years of senior public service experience at the Department of State, the National Security Council, the United Nations, and the U.S. Congress, as well as in the foundation and NGO communities. He holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Snow Scholar, and a Master of Public and International Affairs from Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs). He earned a Bachelor of Arts (with honors) at Binghamton University (of the State University of New York).

“I look forward to working with faculty, staff, alumni, and others in the School community to sustain and strengthen this important institution in the months and years to come,” says Schwartz.

Schwartz served for many years as a visiting lecturer of public and international affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and was the School’s first Practitioner in Residence. While at Princeton, he taught graduate and undergraduate seminars and workshops dealing with the United Nations, democracy promotion, peace operations, international humanitarian assistance, and recovery and reconstruction after disasters. In addition, he was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. His academic and research experience has complemented his leadership as a policy practitioner focusing on international humanitarian affairs, human rights, international organizations, and peacekeeping.