Terry Simmons

Terry Simmons, Ph.D., studied International Relations at the University of Miami and teaches at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has been involved in Russian-American relations since 1987, and is currently researching the conflict between Russia and Georgia. He is a member of the Atlantic Council of the United States, and has been a security consultant to the United States Government. The son of a military officer, Dr. Simmons has traveled extensively throughout the world, and has a graduate minor in Middle East politics. He contracted with the U.S. Department of State to deploy to Baghdad, Iraq as a military advisor to the Ministry of the Interior in 2008. He also interviewed for a teaching assignment with American University in Kurdistan in 2010. He is currently involved with the SWSEEL Language Program at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana and the Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internationalization (ICCI). In 2009 and 2010 he attended the NATO Missile Conferences at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. and is currently writing an article advocating the Lisbon Treaty position involving Russian participation in the ABM AEGIS Missile Defense Program.