Ben Stevenson

Ben Stevenson is the policy assistant to founding director Edward P. Djerejian at Rice University’s Baker Institute. Prior to joining the institute, Stevenson worked as a research analyst at an international opinion polling firm in Washington, D.C. He has also interned in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department, as well as with a D.C.-area defense and development contractor. Stevenson graduated cum laude from Rice University with a Bachelor of Arts in history and political science, and from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service with a Master of Arts in Arab studies.