James G. Stavridis
James G. Stavridis
James George "Jim" Stavridis is a retired United States Navy admiral and the current dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a graduate school for international affairs. He is also chairman of the board of the U.S. Naval Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth15 February 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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