 Appointed Senior Fellow of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies in 2007 (a faculty position), he is also the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution and a courtesy professor of political science at Stanford University.Since 1999, he has been an associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.Joffe was born into a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland and grew up in West Berlin, where he attended elementary school and "gymnasium".