Christopher Sands

Christopher Sands is a Lecturer and Director of the Hopkins Center for Canadian Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a graduate division of Johns Hopkins University.

Previously, he taught as the G. Robert Ross Distinguished Visiting Professor in the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University (2012-2017) and as an adjunct professor at the American University School of Public Affairs (2005-2012). He coordinates the Canada Seminar for the Foreign Service Institute of the US Department of State.

Dr. Sands began his career as a policy research scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) the Washington think tank where he was a resident specialist on Canadian affairs from 1993 until 2002. Sands was a Senior Fellow of the Hudson Institute (2007-2016) and Director of the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2020-2025). His work has been published by think tanks in Canada and the United States including the American Enterprise Institute, the Atlantic Council, the Brookings Institution, the C.D. Howe Institute, the Fraser Institute, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and the Migration Policy Institute. He is a member of the boards of the Institute for Research on Public Policy and the Canada – United States Law Institute, a joint venture of the law schools of Case Western Reserve University and the University of Western Ontario.

Sands earned a B.A. in political science from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota inn 1989, and his M.A. in international economics (1994) and Ph.D. in international relations and Canadian Studies (2009) from Johns Hopkins.