Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he specializes in international relations, foreign policy, and nation building. He is one of the authors of the selectorate theory, and is also the director of New York University`s Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy.

He has founded a company, Mesquita & Roundell[1], that specializes in making political and foreign-policy forecasts using an unpublished and proprietary computer model based on game theory and rational choice theory.