(1980), magna cum laude, from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
[1] Arend has served his entire professional career at Georgetown University, his undergraduate alma mater.
[3] He also served as Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program at the Walsh School from 2008 to 2017.
[5] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is Chair of the Faculty Editorial Board of Georgetown University Press.
[6] In 2014, Arend and Ambassador Mark P. Lagon, former director of the US Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, published Human Dignity and the Future of Global Institutions.