Alexandra Stark is the 2018 security and defense fellow at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP). She is a PhD candidate at Georgetown University and a research fellow at the Middle East Initiative of the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is also a Minerva-USIP peace and security scholar. Stark holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA from Wellesley College, where she was a fellow of the Albright Institute for Global Affairs.