Education
Eric Greitens was born and raised in Missouri where he attended Parkway North High School. Greitens was named a member of the 1995 USA Today All-USA Academic Team. He was an Angier B. Duke Scholar at Duke University where he studied ethics, philosophy, and public policy. After graduating in 1996, he was selected as a Rhodes and Truman Scholar. Greitens attended Lady Margaret Hall, a constituent college of the University of Oxford where he earned a master’s degree in development studies in 1998, and a Ph.D. in politics in 2000.
Greitens is a Senior Fellow at the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri. In the past, Greitens has taught classes at both the University of Missouri in Columbia and at Washington University in St. Louis.
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