Larry J. Diamond

Larry Jay Diamond is an American political sociologist and scholar in the field of democracy studies. He is the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank on the Stanford campus working to advance freedom and prosperity, and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford University's main center for research on international issues. At FSI Diamond served as the director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) from 2009 to 2015. He was succeeded in that role by Francis Fukuyama and then Kathryn Stoner.