With Resources and Guidance
The Andrew W. Marshall Scholar program provides Scholars with the resources and guidance to conduct a year-long study on U.S. national security. 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. The Scholar may be selected and supported in conjunction with a host institution but is not in-residence at the host institution.
2025 Andrew W. Marshall Scholar
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, he served as Professor of Biophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and held appointments at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and B.S. from Yale University (summa cum laude). Dr. Pabo is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
2023-2024 Andrew W. Marshall Scholar
Hudson Institute Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Episode 1: RAND CEO Jason Matheny Gives a Masterclass on Risk and Organizational Design
Jordan Schneider is a noted China expert, blogger, and podcaster. He is the creator of the ChinaTalk podcast and Substack newsletter. He previously worked for The Rhodium Group, Bridgewater, and the Eurasia Group. Jordan received a master’s degree in economics from Peking University’s Yenching Academy and a BA in history from Yale. His research has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Wired, and Lawfare. He is proficient in Chinese.
Jordan’s scholarship will include long-form discussions with experts across disciplines to explore how technology, operational concepts, and organizations drive and respond to changes in the character of war. These conversations will draw on one of the oldest forms of scholarship—dialogue—to reveal how military paradigms evolve and how this evolution can help America and its allies deter and dissuade aggression.
2022-23 Andrew W. Marshall Scholar
Hudson Institute Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Read Jake Bebber’s paper, “Cognitive Competition, Conflict, and War: An Ontological Approach”
Jake Bebber is a Cryptologic Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy. He is currently the Cyber Operations Branch Head for U.S. Special Operations Command. Recently he was Executive Officer for Information Warfare Training Command Corry Station, and Cryptologic Resource Coordinator for Carrier Strike Group 12. Previously he served at U.S. Cyber Command, 7th Fleet, Submarine Direct Support Officer, the National Security Operations Center, and at Provincial Reconstruction Team Khost in Afghanistan. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Central Florida. He is supported by his wife, Dana, and their two boys, Vincent and Zachary.
2021-22 Andrew W. Marshall Scholar
Hudson Institute Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Arthur Tellis is a director in the office of the Principal Cyber Advisor to the Secretary of Defense in OSD (Policy). His portfolio includes defense industrial base cybersecurity and counterintelligence, commercial technology transition, and international partnerships. Prior to joining the Department of Defense, he was a staffer on the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he specialized in cyber operations and cybersecurity issues. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2016 with a major in Economics and a minor in History.
