ASP’s Senior Adjunct Fellows

Adjunct Senior Fellow

Expertise: U.S. Grand Strategy, U.S. Nuclear Policy, Arms Control

Dr. Brown has held senior research and policy analysis positions at the RAND Corporation, the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in... More

Senior Adjunct Fellow

Expertise: Cuba, Latin America, U.S. Foreign Policy, International Development, National Security, Intelligence

Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, PhD., was named Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Success at the University of Nebraska Omaha in October 2014. He has served as the chief student affairs officer with oversight of diversity, inclusion and equity issues on... More

Senior Adjunct Fellow

Fadi Elsalameen is a political commentator, op-ed writer, and public speaker on Arab-Israeli affairs. He is a Non-resident Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the American Security Project, a Washingt... More

Senior Adjunct Fellow

Expertise: National Security Strategy, Future Security Environment, Strategic Objectives

Eric Gunn is an Adjunct Senior Fellow for the American Security Project, specializing in national security strategy, the future security environment, and the definition of strategic objectives by the... More

Managing Director, Roaring Fork Strategies

Senior Adjunct Fellow

Specializing in the economic and commercial aspects of national security, Danielle Camner Lindholm has worked in a comprehensive range of positions: doing international standards harmonization at the Department of Transportation; as the Country Manager for the Middle East and North Africa at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA);... More

Senior Adjunct Fellow

Eliot D. Pence serves as Director at McLarty Associates, where he concentrates on Africa. Prior to McLarty, Mr. Pence served as a director for a consulting firm focused on Africa, where he advised multinational companies on their strategies in over 20 markets througho... More

Senior Adjunct Fellow

Expertise: National Security Strategy, National Military Strategy, Strategic Communications

Areas of Interest: Energy Security, Terrorism, Asymmetric Operations

Kendric H. Robbins is a retired Army officer with more than twenty years of experience serving in tac... More

Senior Adjunct Fellow

Expertise: Homeland and National Security issue with a focus on the intersection between national and economic security

Former Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Douglas Smith, is currently Executive Vice President and General Manager f... More

Senior Adjunct Fellow

Expertise: National security strategy, homeland security, democracy promotion & assistance, strategic communications

Scott Bates has served in leadership roles at the state, national and international levels in policy development and government for over twenty five years.

After September 11th, Bates became the first Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. House of Representa... More

Senior Adjunct Fellow

Dr. Tim Denning is a seasoned executive who has driven organizations in achieving their strategic objectives and is an accomplished academic. 

As an industry executive, Tim has led and been a critical part of teams that have closed numerous deals, winning billions of dollars in contract value in the federal market and has sup... More

Senior Adjunct Fellow

Lindsay Iversen is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the American Security Project. Most recently, she served as Deputy Director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), an interdisciplinary center that supports and shares faculty research on energy markets, air pollution, and the economic effects of climate change. Concurrently, she was the Editorial Director for EPIC’s 2021 book... More

Senior Adjunct Fellow

Expertise: Participatory governance, fragile and conflict affected states, youth employment, employability and empowerment, education, agricultural livelihoods

Joanne Trotter is an independent consultant and advisor. She supports the design, implementation and asses... More

Senior Adjunct Fellow

Expertise: Middle East (Syria/Iran), Eurasia, Turkey, Japan, Asian Security Architecture, Public Diplomacy, Strategic Commercial Diplomacy

Dr. Joshua W. Walker is the Vice-President of APCO Worldwide, a leading strategic communications firm where he most recently helped set up its newest office in Tokyo, Japan along with overseeing its Global Programs consisting of 34 reg... More

Senior Adjunct Fellow

Jake E. Zimmerman, Senior Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector (PS), leads one of the Firm’s largest business development portfolios focused on Foreign Affairs, National Security, and Inf... More