William Inboden
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| Born | November 7, 1972 |
| Residence | Austin, TX |
| Fields | National Security, U.S. Foreign Policy, Religious Freedom |
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The William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs University of Texas at Austin |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
William Charles Inboden III (born November 7, 1972) is an American academic, writer, and former White House staffer. Inboden is the Executive Director and William Powers, Jr. Chair of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as an Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law.
Will Inboden graduated with an A.B. in History from Stanford University in 1994. During his time at Stanford, Inboden studied abroad at Oxford University's Magdalen College.
After graduation, Inboden worked as a staff member in both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives in the offices of Sam Nunn (D-GA) and Tom DeLay (R-TX). During his time in Congress, Inboden was one of the original "visionaries" of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, which obligates Congress and the President "to take into account the various issues of religious freedom while developing the country's foreign policy."
In 1998, Inboden moved to New Haven to purse a Ph.D in History at Yale University. During his time at Yale, Inboden was a Civitas Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C from 2001-2002. Inboden received his Ph.D. degree in History from Yale University in 2003. His dissertation was entitled "The Soul of American Diplomacy: Religion and Foreign Policy, 1945-1960."
Returning to Washington, D.C., Inboden worked at the U.S. Department of State as a Member of the Policy Planning Staff and the Special Advisor in the Office of International Religious Freedom.
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