Salman brings more than three decades of experience building international cooperation around some of the world’s most complex challenges. His career has spanned government, multilateral institutions, academia, and public policy research, with a consistent focus on helping leaders navigate change, forge partnerships, and advance shared goals in an increasingly complex global environment.

Most recently, Salman served as Distinguished Chair in Strategy and Diplomacy at RAND, where he focused on the geopolitical implications of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. Before that, he led the U.S. Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, advising on national security strategy and foreign policy while engaging partners across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, as well as China and the G7. Prior to those roles, he served as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he led work examining how foreign policy can better support economic opportunity and prosperity. Earlier in his career, Salman served in senior roles at both the White House National Security Council and the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. He also spent nearly 15 years with the United Nations, where he worked on peace operations, diplomacy, institutional reform, and conflict resolution in regions around the world.

Salman has taught at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and holds an M.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and a B.S. in Economics from New York University’s Stern School of Business.