Mark Hannah leads a program which explores the benefits of a less militarized U.S. foreign policy at the Institute for Global Affairs, a nonprofit public education organization founded by Ian Bremmer and housed at the Eurasia Group. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a political partner at the Truman National Security Project. He created and hosts the foreign policy podcast, “None Of The Above.”

He has written foreign policy analysis for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Politico Magazine, TIME, USA Today, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere. His research has been cited widely, including by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Foreign Affairs.

A veteran of the Kerry and Obama presidential campaigns, Hannah oversaw trips by then Vice President Biden to Lebanon and Romania. He was a regular commentator on MSNBC, FOX News, and CNBC during the Obama administration. He is the author of The Best 'Worst President' - What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama (Dey Street/HarperCollins, 2016), and was an informal advisor to the Warren and Biden presidential campaigns in the 2020 cycle.

Hannah recently led a research initiative focused on media freedom at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge. He is an affiliate of the Global Freedom of Expression initiative at Columbia University, a former board member of the National Association for Media Literacy Education, and a member of PEN America. He has taught graduate seminars at New York University, The New School, and Queens College.

A former public affairs strategist at Edelman Public Relations, Hannah has advised well-known corporate and non-profit clients, and continues to do so on an ad hoc basis as principal of Gristmill Public Affairs, LLC.

Hannah studied at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A.), Columbia University (M.S.), and the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (Ph.D.). A native Cape Codder, he lives in Connecticut with his wife and two sons.