Faculty and Staff

PhD, International Relations, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; President of The Institute of World Politics; Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Marine Corps University; Dean of Academics at the Marine Corps War College.

JD, American University. Vice President for Policy, American Foreign Policy Council; Editor, Journal of International Security Affairs; Adjunct Professor, National Defense University, Ft. Leslie McNair (DC); Adjunct Professor, American University.

JD, Cornell Law School. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, Technology Security Policy and Counterproliferation Policy; Director, Defense Technology Administration; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, European and NATO Policy.

JD, University of Iowa College of Law. MS National Security Strategy, National War College; Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, 2003-present. Director, Stabilization and Peacekeeping; OSD Chair, Eisenhower School for National Resource Strategy; Principal Director Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy

Commander, US Navy, retired; Doctor, Defense & Strategic Studies, Missouri State Univ., 2024; PhD student, Salve Regina Univ.; MA, US Naval War College (distinguished graduate); Military Professor of Strategy and Policy, US Naval War College, 2020-2023; NATO Operations Chief and Policy Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy

PhD, University of Southern California. Director, Office of Missile Defense Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Pentagon (2000-Present).

U.S. Ambassador, Special envoy for Six-Party Talks with North Korea; US Representative to the Korea Energy Development Organization; Associate Director of National Intelligence and Director of National Counter Proliferation Center.

PhD, George Mason University. U.S. Senate professional staff, Senate Armed Services Committee; Heritage Foundation; Research Fellow, International Institute for Political Science, Masaryk University (Czech Republic).

PhD, University of Southern California. Director, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University (2004-10).

DPhil, International Relations, Oxford University. JD, Yale Law School; Visiting Fellow, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution; Founder and Principal of Two Ravens Policy & Strategy LLC.

Doctoral student, Missouri State University; MA, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University; Colonel (retired), U.S. Space Force; Director of Space Strategy and Policy at Headquarters, US Space Force, Pentagon, 2022-present; National Security Studies Department Chair and Assistant Professor, National Defense University, Eisenhower School, 2018-2022.

PhD, Columbia University. Senior Associate, National Institute for Public Policy; Contributor, Freiheit Macht Politilk - Berlin; Senior Associate, Jeff Winton Associates; Communications and External Affairs Executive, Roche Diagnostics, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, Eli Lilly and Company.

PhD, political science, The George Washington University. Retired U.S. Army Reserve officer; duties mainly in special operations and intelligence. Former CIA analyst. Adjunct professor Georgetown University.

PhD, Washington University in St. Louis. Professor of Political Science; Director of the Security Studies Program, Westminster College. Former Adjunct Instructor, Texas A&M University.

PhD, Univ. of Southern California. Served 26 years at the U.S. Department of State in positions including Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation; Chief, Division of Strategy and Policy Studies.

PhD, University of Reading. Professor, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base; Strategy, Concepts and Initiatives Team, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Pentagon.

PhD, Harvard University. Department of State, Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Arms Control; National Security Council Staff, Director for Proliferation Strategy.

PhD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Dean of Academics, Institute of World Politics. Professor, Command & Staff College, Marine Corps University, and School of International Service, American University.

Senior Research Fellow, National Defense University; Director, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Graduate Fellowship Program

PhD, George Mason University. Assistant Director, Government Accountability Office (GAO), Defense Capabilities and Management Team, supporting Congress, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, Department of Homeland Security.

Colonel, USAF, Retired. MS, Joint Military Intelligence College/National Intelligence University. MAS, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Vice President & co-founder, National Institute for Deterrence Studies.

PhD, Nanyang Technological University, School of International Studies, Singapore (2020); John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, National Security Analysis Department (2013); American Enterprise Institute, Defense Policy Research (2012).

MS, Tufts University. Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction (2014-present); Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Biological Policy Staff, Department of State (2016).

PhD, Univ. of Southern California. Senior Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy; Chairman, US Strategic Command’s Senior Advisory Group, Strategy Policy Panel; Faculty, Georgetown University.

MA, Johns Hopkins University. CIA (28 years) handling national security issues, ranging from assessing Soviet strategic nuclear forces, collapse of the Soviet Union to Islamic terrorism; Consultant, Director of National Intelligence.

D.SL, Strategic Leadership, Regent University. Dr. Taylor provides national security and foreign policy expertise from an extensive combined career on Capitol Hill, in defense sub-contracting, academia, and as a United States congressional candidate.

PhD, Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Trexel consults as a contractor for the Department of Defense on nuclear deterrence and related topics and served over 21 years in the U.S. Air Force as an all-source intelligence analyst.

Nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to serve as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, where he served until July 2019, the Honorable David Trachtenberg totals more than 40 years of public policy experience.