Education
Leiken holds a B.A. from Harvard University in English (he graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and wrote a Summa Cum Laude thesis on Henry James), an M.A. from Harvard University in History, and a doctorate in Politics from St Antony's College, Oxford University. In 2003 he was awarded the Bosch Berlin Prize in Public Policy by the American Academy in Berlin. Leiken is fluent in Spanish. He has also studied French, German, Classical Greek and Latin.
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