Diamond is the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He co-leads the Project on Taiwan at Hoover, as well as the Israel Studies Program and the Global Digital Policy Incubator at FSI. Diamond previously directed the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at FSI and served as Faculty Co-Director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford. He also served for 32 years as founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy.