Pete is a partnering faculty member for the Emerging Leader’s program.

Dr. Pete Ronayne is Dean of the Faculty at the Federal Executive Institute. His areas of specialty include American diplomatic history, humanitarian intervention, morality and foreign policy, global leadership, and issues of values, leadership, public service in the 21st century and generational difference. He directs FEI’s Leadership for a Democratic Society program and co-founded FEI’s Center for Global Leadership. He is the author of Never Again: The United States and the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide Since the Holocaust and coauthored the 2003 update of Biography of an Ideal, a history of the U.S. civil service for the Office of Personnel Management. His current book projects include a biography of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and a history of Generation X. A former Presidential Management Intern, Pete also teaches as an adjunct Politics professor at the University of Virginia, where he, himself, received his doctorate. While at UVA, he was a Dupont Fellow and Raven Society Scholar, and a fellow for the Institute for the Study of World Politics. His undergraduate work was completed at Georgetown University. As an avocation, he periodically hosts acoustic, modern rock, and public affairs programming for Charlottesville radio station 91.9 WNRN.