Tantum Collins graduated from Yale University in 2013. A Global Affairs major with an interest in the design of supranational institutions, he has studied, worked and conducted research in Jordan, China, India and Qatar. Currently he is working with Gen. Stanley McChrystal on a book about the transformation of the Joint Strategic Operations Command in Iraq from 2004 to 2009, and its implications for the future of organizational adaptability. At Oxford he will pursue an MPhil in International Relations with a concentration in Global Institutional Design.