14 Facts About William Galston

William Arthur Galston is an American author, academic, and political advisor, who holds the Ezra K Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Formerly the Saul Stern Professor and Dean at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and a professor of political science at the University of Texas, Austin, Galston specializes in issues of US public philosophy and political institutions, having joined the Brookings Institution on January 1,2006.

William Galston is the son of Yale University plant physiologist Arthur Galston.

William Galston was deputy assistant for domestic policy to US President Bill Clinton.

William Galston has been employed by the presidential campaigns of Al Gore, Walter Mondale, and John B Anderson.

Since 1995, William Galston has served as a founding member of the Board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and as chair of the Campaign's Task Force on Religion and Public Values.

William Galston had once served in the United States Marine Corps as a sergeant.

William Galston was educated at Cornell, where he was a member of the Telluride House, and the University of Chicago, where he got his Ph.

William Galston then taught for nearly a decade in the Department of Government at the University of Texas.

William Galston founded, with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.

William Galston was director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, both located at the University of Maryland.

William Galston has written on questions of political and moral philosophy, US politics and public policy, having produced eight books and more than one hundred articles.

William Galston is a co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and What We Can Do About It, published by the Brookings Press.

William Galston became an op-ed columnist for the Wall Street Journal in 2013.