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Director of the Sustainable Security Program
Center for American Progress
Reuben E. Brigety, II is Director of the Sustainable Security Program at the Center for American Progress. From January 2007 to January 2008, he served as a Special Assistant in the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Dr. Brigety’s work focuses on the role of development assistance in U.S. foreign policy, U.S. national security, human rights, and humanitarian affairs. He is the author of Ethics, Technology and the American Way of War (Routledge, 2007) and a variety of other articles and book chapters. He has testified multiple times before both houses of Congress on national security issues, and has been featured in national and international news media such as the BBC World Service, Fox News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today. He has also served as a consultant to various organizations in the US Defense Department, UNICEF, and private sector clients on matters of development and security.
From 2003-2007, Dr. Brigety served as an assistant professor at American University and George Mason University teaching international relations. Before entering academia, Dr. Brigety was a researcher with the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch. He served on HRW research missions in Afghanistan in March 2002 and in Iraq in April and May of 2003. He also served as HRW's coordinator for crisis management during the Iraq war and as an HRW delegate to the Convention on Conventional Weapons negotiations in Geneva. Before joining HRW, Dr. Brigety was an active duty U.S. naval officer and held several staff positions in the Pentagon and in fleet support units.
Dr. Brigety is a Distinguished Midshipman Graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, where he earned a B.S. in political science (with merit), served as the Brigade Commander, and received the Thomas G. Pownall Scholarship. He also holds an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge (Cantab). He is a fellow of the Cambridge Overseas Society, a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a recipient of the Council’s International Affairs Fellowship.
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