Dr. Bryan R. Early is the founding director of the Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES) and served as the Director of the Center for Policy Research from 2015-2019.
Dr. Early is also a Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean for Research at the University at Albany, SUNY’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs Policy.
He has published dozens of peer-reviewed academic articles on the topics such as economic sanctions, weapons of mass destruction, security issues, shadow economies, and political violence.
His book Busted Sanctions: Explaining Why Economic Sanctions Fail (Stanford University Press, 2015) provides the first comprehensive explanation of how and why countries undercut economic sanctions via the trade and foreign aid they provide to states targeted by economic sanctions.
He has extensive experience writing grants, managing team-based international projects, developing training curricula for government officials, and advising governments on strategic trade control and sanctions policies. His PISCES Team has worked with over two dozen governments around the world on nonproliferation and economic statecraft issues and has received more than 100 awards totaling over $25 million since 2012.
Dr. Early received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 2009 and is a former research fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.