PhD in Political Science (CUNY Graduate Center)

Deputy Director, Ralph Bunche Institute
Director, Project on UAP Studies and International Security
ekaretny@gc.cuny.edu
@ekaretny

Eli Karetny, JD, PhD, is the RBI’s deputy director. He is the Principal Investigator on several core research projects, directs the Project on UAP Studies and International Security, manages the Diplomat in Residence Program, supervises graduate student research and oversees the Visiting Scholars Program, and serves as the Institute’s grants director, financial officer, and legal advisor to the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P) and the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity (CSHGCAH), and is a member of the advisory boards of both organizations.

Eli completed his PhD in International Relations at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation explored monarchic themes in the work of Leo Strauss, focusing especially on Nietzsche’s influence on Strauss’s view of the role of teachers and advisors as regime-changers. He got his JD/MBA from Temple University, served in the Peace Corps in Ukraine, and received his Master’s Degree in International Relations from NYU. Eli is also researcher at the Hotam School of Anthroposophy and Kabbalah, which informs his interest in how esoteric wisdom influences human affairs.

As the director of the Project on UAP Studies and International Security, Eli hosts the UAP Working Group on UN Engagement. He is an advisory board member of the Society for UAP Studies and teaches a Masters course in UAP Studies and National Security at the CUNY Graduate Center.