Biography

Kojm received an AB from Harvard College

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 in 1977 and an MA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school has granted undergraduate A.B. degrees since 1930 and graduate degrees since 1948...

 at Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 in 1979. From 1979 to 1984 he was a senior editor at the Foreign Policy Association

Foreign Policy Association

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 in New York City

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From 1984 to 1998 he was a staff member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee under Lee H. Hamilton

Lee H. Hamilton

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, the ranking member, then chairman of the committee.

From 1998 to 2003, Kojm was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence Policy and Coordination in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research

Bureau of Intelligence and Research

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. He then served as Deputy Director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

9/11 Commission

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, later serving as president of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project

9/11 Public Discourse Project

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Between 2004 and 2006, he was a Visiting Professor at his alma mater, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school has granted undergraduate A.B. degrees since 1930 and graduate degrees since 1948...

. In 2006, he was a senior adviser to the Iraq Study Group

Iraq Study Group

The Iraq Study group , was a ten-person bipartisan panel appointed on March 15, 2006, by the United States Congress, that was charged with assessing the situation in Iraq and the US-led Iraq War and making policy recommendations...

. In 2007, he became a faculty member of the Elliott School of International Affairs

Elliott School of International Affairs

The Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University is a professional school in international relations. It is located in the heart of Washington, D.C...

 at George Washington University

George Washington University

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