 He also worked as a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. from late 2008 until early 2013, after which he returned to U.S. government service as Republican Chief Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations and subsequently served with the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations before joining the NSC staff.Ford received his bachelor's degree "summa cum laude" from Harvard College in 1989, where he received the Hoopes, Firth, Detur, and Bonaparte prizes.He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received his doctorate in International Relations there in 1992.