Bachelor of Arts in Classics & Government with high honors, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1999. Master of Public Administration in International Security Policy, Harvard University, Massachusetts. Master of Business Administration, Harvard University, Massachusetts.
Infantry officer, Operation Enduring Freedom United States Marine Corps, 2001—2002, reconnaissance officer, Operation Enduring Freedom Iraq, 2003. Visiting fellow Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2006. Civilian instructor Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Academy, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2007.
Fellow Center for a New American Security, Washington, since 2007, chief operating officer, 2009, Chief Executive Officer, since 2009. On-air national security consultant Columbia Broadcasting System News. Member presidential transition team United States Department Veterinary Affairs.
Speaker Democratic National Convention, Denver, 2008. Board member Marines Corps Scholarship Fund, Dartmouth College Rockefeller Center Public Policy. Member of International Institute Strategic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations.
Married Margaret Angell.
