Area of Expertise: National security policy, defense, diplomacy, and foreign assistance budgets; foreign policy; Iraq War; Congress and national security; transatlantic national security relationships; and European defense and security issues

Additional Information: Gordon Adams is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. He was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2006-07. For the previous seven years, he was a professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, and director of the School’s Security Policy Studies Program. He was previously deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and served for five years as the associate director for national security and international affairs at the Office of Management and Budget, the senior White House budget official for national security. He has been an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and received the Department of Defense Medal for distinguished public service. He has testified numerous times before Congress on defense spending and national security issues; writes frequent columns for major media outlets, including a monthly column for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; and is widely quoted by national media on national security policy and budgets. Adams has published books, monographs, and articles on defense and national security policy, the defense policy process (The Iron Triangle: The Politics of Defense Contracting), and on national security budgets. He is writing a book on the latter topic, tentatively titled Buying National Security. The book is due for publication in 2009 by Routledge Press.

Foreign Language Fluency: French

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