Claes G. Ryn

CLAES G. RYN was born and raised in Sweden but has lived in Washington, D.C., for most of his adult life. He is Professor of Politics and former Chairman of his department at the Catholic University of America and is the author of a number of scholarly books. He has taught also at Georgetown University, the University of Virginia, and Louisiana State University. His teaching and writing focus on ethics and politics, politics and culture, and the history of Western political thought. A frequent visitor to China, he gave the Distinguished Foreign Scholar Lectures at Beijing University in 2000 and is Honorary Professor at Beijing Normal University.