Berkley Center

Sanford J. "Sandy" Ungar currently serves as a distinguished scholar in residence at Georgetown University. Ungar also serves as a member of the Public Interest Declassification Board, to which he was reappointed in 2014. A journalist and author, Ungar previously served as the tenth president of Goucher College from 2001 to 2014. Before this, he was the director of the Voice of America, the U.S. government’s principal international broadcasting agency under the Clinton administration. Additionally, Ungar served as dean of American University's School of Communications from 1986 to 1999. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Ungar is an international journalist with experience at media outlets including Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic, and he was previously the host of NPR’s flagship show, All Things Considered. Ungar obtained his B.A. in government from Harvard University and a M.A. in international history from the London School of Economics and Political Science.