Matthew Kroenig is a tenured associate professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University and the deputy director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. He previously served in several positions in the US government, including in the Strategy Office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Strategic Assessments Group at the Central Intelligence Agency. He regularly consults with a range of US government entities. He is the author or editor of six books, including The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy (Oxford University Press, 2018), and his articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Politico, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, among others. He has previously worked as a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard University and Stanford University. Kroenig provides regular commentary for major media outlets, including PBS, the BBC and CNN. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley.