Terrence Mullan is a MPhil/PhD candidate in the Department of International Relations at LSE. His research focuses on how shifts in climate have impacted international order change.

He was previously associate director of the Council of Councils at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where he managed an international initiative that connected twenty-seven major policy institutes from twenty-four countries in a dialogue on issues of geopolitics and multilateral cooperation. He also served as assistant director and program coordinator for CFR’s International Institutions and Global Governance program. Prior to that, he was manager of the president’s office at the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. He also worked in the offices of Senator Roland W. Burris as a legislative aide and Senator Paul G. Kirk Jr. as a legislative correspondent. From 2014 to 2015, he was a Frederic Bastiat fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center.

Mullan earned a BBA in international business and economics from George Washington University and an MA in international commerce and policy from George Mason University. He is a CFR term member.

Research topic

Changes in Climate and International Order: The Impact of Significant Shifts in Climate on Historic Periods of International Order Change

Academic supervisor

Robert Falkner

Research Cluster affliation

International Institutions, Law and Ethics Research cluster

Security and Statecraft Research Cluster