Patrick Hutson is from Towson, Maryland. He attended the University of Maryland, College Park in 2016 and majored in Government and Politics with minors in History and Global Terrorism Studies from Maryland’s START program. Graduating in 2019, he began employment at the Department of Justice where he currently works. He is currently a graduate student at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service earning a degree in Security Studies. His areas of interest include intelligence history, existential risk, and forecasting and foresight, and his hobbies include reading comics, writing poetry, and playing roleplaying games.

Lance Menthe is a Senior Physical Scientist at the RAND Corporation where he works on artificial intelligence and new tools and processes for military intelligence. He has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, concerning twisting conformations of DNA. In his spare time, he writes contemporary and speculative fiction.

Tom is a consultant focusing on defense science and technology, future warfare studies, asymmetries in key military competitions, competitive strategies, and wargames. He has held numerous positions in government including with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Defense Science Board and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. His earlier China work for the Office of the Secretary of Defense included Indicators to Track the Revolution in Military Affairs (1995) and Chinese Power Projection to 2020 (1998). Tom holds a liberal arts degree, and a masters and doctorate in physics.

Julia is a PhD candidate in management and organizations at the NYU Stern School of Business. She conducts field-based, mixed-methods, meso-level research in Organizational Behavior. She studies employees’ experiences of transition at work, with a particular focus on how widespread changes in the way individuals and organizations work can, in turn, change what they pay attention to and how they pay attention to it. Currently, she investigates this in the context of the transition from co-located to virtual work arrangements. Before joining the PhD program, Julia spent a decade working in software and sustainable energy.

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Don is a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and an incoming assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on foreign policy decision making and political psychology. Don’s work has been published or is forthcoming in the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and World Politics. He holds a BA in government from Dartmouth College and a PhD in political science from Columbia University.

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“America’s Reactive Foreign Policy: How U.S. Organizational Behavior and Culture Advantages China”

Biography

Travis serves as a Major in the U.S. Army with the United States Strategic Command. He is also a member of the Aspen Strategy Group Rising Leaders Class of 2025 and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served as an Art of War Scholar at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) and as a research assistant at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs. He holds an MA in Strategic Studies and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a Master of Military Art and Science (MMAS) in Strategy from CGSC, and a BS from the United States Military Academy.

Ido is an associate fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a PhD student at American University’s School of International Service. He is the author of the book Soldiers of End-Times: Assessing the Military Effectiveness of the Islamic State, published by The Washington Institute. His work has appeared in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Middle Easy Policy, Terrorism and Political Violence, Small Wars Journal, NBC, Jerusalem Post, and other publications.