Dr. Waller holds the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair in International Communication, and directs the Institute's graduate programs on public diplomacy and political warfare.

He has been a scholar-practitioner in public diplomacy, political warfare, psychological operations and information operations in support of US foreign and military policy. He was a member of the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives and the US Senate, served on the White House Task Force on Central America, and has served as a consultant to the US Information Agency, the US Agency for International Development, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He is a frequent lecturer and instructor in psychological and information operations for the US military and the intelligence community. In 2006 he received a citation from the Director of the FBI for "exceptional service in the public interest."

Dr. Waller is editor of Serviam, a magazine he co-founded in 2007 for and about private sector global stability solutions. He has written for Insight, the Los Angeles Times, Reader's Digest, USA Today, the Washington Times and the Wall Street Journal.

He was a founding editor of Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, published in cooperation with the American University and Moscow State University.

His books include the prizewinning Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today (Westview, 1994); Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes, ed. with Ilan Berman (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006); Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War (IWP Press, 2007); The Public Diplomacy Reader (IWP Press, 2007); and the forthcoming Strategic Influence: Public Diplomacy, Counterpropaganda and Political Warfare (IWP Press, 2008).

He is Vice President for Information Operations of the Center for Security Policy. His blog is PoliticalWarfare.org.