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

Dr. Eli Karetny is the deputy director and the founding director of the Institute’s Project on UAP Studies and International Security, which supports the work of international relations scholars doing UAP research. Eli organized the UAP Working Group on UN Engagement to develop a framework for coordinating policy proposals with UN agencies. Dr. Karetny teaches a masters course on UAP Studies and National Security at the CUNY Graduate Center, serves on the advisory board of the Society for UAP Studies, and is a Senior Fellow at the Sol Foundation.

Eli is the Principal Investigator of the RBI’s core international research grants, he manages the Diplomat in Residence Program, and supervising the Visiting Scholars Program. Dr. Karetny also serves as the Institute’s program officer and legal advisor on human rights projects doing work at the United Nations, including the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P) on whose advisory board he sits. Dr. Karetny is also on the advisory board of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity.

Dr. Karetny completed his PhD in International Relations and Political Theory at the CUNY Graduate Center, received a JD/MBA from Temple University, and an MS in international relations from New York University. He also served in the Peace Corps in Ukraine, and studies esoteric wisdom at the Hotam School in Israel. He has published in academic journals on Leo Strauss’s concept of regime change, on the application of Peter Thiel’s interpretation of the katechon to US foreign policy, and he is currently working on a paper about how Strauss’s philosophic debates with Alexander Kojeve shed light on the UAP discourse around global governance of advanced technology.