Christopher Sands is an Adjunct Lecturer, Director of the Hopkins Center for Canadian Studies, and Faculty Co-Lead for Technology and Innovation at SAIS. He is a faculty advisor in the SAIS Doctorate in International Affairs program. Dr. Sands is Director of the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1968 to provide nonpartisan counsel and insights on global affairs to policymakers through research, analysis, and independent scholarship. He is co-host of the Canusa Street podcast, and a regular panelist on the Wilson Center’s Americas 360 podcast on Western Hemisphere affairs. Currently he is the course coordinator for the Canada Seminar at the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute where he has lectured regularly on Canada and US-Canadian relations since 1997.