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.

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

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

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, 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, Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. John Langton Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science; founding Director of the Security Studies Program, Westminster College. Former Adjunct Professor, Texas A&M University.

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, 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.