Chris Aresu

Chris Aresu, an economics and political science major from Houston, Texas, graduated from Rice University in 2008. He assisted in research on funding for public diplomacy at the Coalition for American Leadership Abroad (COLEAD) in summer 2006. He presented the results of his research, “Congressional Control of Foreign Policy,” at the Baker Institute in August 2006. Aresu was recommended by Jonathan Ludwig of the Center for the Study of Languages at Rice. Aresu also held an internship with the American Red Cross in summer 2006, and went on to study at the London School of Economics and Political Science in fall 2006. In 2009, he began work at Civic Service, an international relations consulting firm in Washington, D.C.