Author: Amy Suski
Message From Executive Director Melissa Flagg
JAFFREY, NH – I am genuinely excited to join The Andrew W. Marshall Foundation as Executive Director. I am particularly excited to announce our cornerstone initiative that will be my primary focus over the next two years: the development of a comprehensive digital archive and library. This project will involve digitizing the papers of Andrew W. Marshall and integrating them with influential works from his contemporaries, friends, those he funded, and the research that inspired him.
Our goal is to make this rich resource widely accessible to our community, featuring robust query, search, and summarization capabilities, and ensuring its long-term sustainability. This endeavor is central to our mission to honor Andy Marshall’s legacy, not just by preserving his intellectual contributions, but by creating a vibrant platform to find, nurture, and encourage the people who will shape our future. This digital library will serve as a foundation for fostering innovative perspectives and generating fresh insights for successive generations of strategic thinkers, building on Andy’s profound legacy
While I will be dedicated to establishing and growing this vital program, Jaymie Durnan, our Co-founder and Chair, will continue to guide the Foundation’s broader e”orts in directly finding and fostering the exceptional individuals who embody Andy’s spirit of curious and rigorous strategic thinking. I look forward to working with you all as we build out this initiative and hope to engage this community directly over the coming months. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with your ideas, reports and papers that we might integrate, or just your stories of Andy. We have established a dedicated email for this e”ort and welcome your contributions: library@andrewwmarshallfoundation.org
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AWMF Welcomes Carl O. Pabo as 2025 Scholar
JAFFREY, NH – The Andrew W. Marshall Foundation (AWMF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Carl O. Pabo, noted scientist and strategic analyst, as the 2025 Andrew W. Marshall Scholar.
The Andrew W. Marshall Scholar experiment provides resources and guidance to conduct a year-long study. Scholars are original, critical thinkers who bring new frameworks to their thinking about strategic questions or employ traditional frameworks in novel ways. They work across disciplines to explore the future and are passionate about shaping the future of U.S. national security.
Dr. Pabo embarked on a remarkable intellectual voyage 25 years ago, leaving the safe harbor of a tenured MIT faculty position and successful career in biophysics to examine the dangerous mismatch between the complexity of modern global challenges and limits of human cognitive capacity. Dr. Pabo’s AWM scholarship will explore how understanding thought’s physical basis can help us use thought more wisely when working to address key strategic questions now facing the United States.
Previously, Dr. Pabo served as a Professor of Biophysics at MIT and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, with earlier appointments at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard and B.S. from Yale (summa cum laude). Dr. Pabo is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.