Future Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy

Dr. Derek S. Reveron is chair of the National Security Affairs Department at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and is a faculty affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. He specializes in strategy development, non-state security challenges, and US defense policy. He served as a governor-appointed commissioner on the Rhode Island Cybersecurity Commission. He has authored or edited 14 books that include Human and National Security, The Oxford Handbook of U.S. National Security, and Exporting Security: International Engagement, Security Cooperation, and the Changing Face of the US Military. As a veteran of the Navy Reserves, he served with the Joint Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, and North American Trade Organization (NATO) Training Mission-Afghanistan. He commanded units in support of US Southern Command, Naval Forces Central Command, US European Command, and US Pacific Command. Before joining the Naval War College faculty in 2004, Reveron taught political science at the US Naval Academy. During graduate school, he formulated, implemented and evaluated democracy promotion programs for the nongovernmental organization Heartland International. He graduated from the College of Naval Command Staff through the College of Distance Education Fleet seminar program and completed the maritime staff operators course at the Naval War College. He received an MA in political science and a PhD in public policy analysis from the University of Illinois at Chicago.