Sean Mcfate
Associate Professor
International Security Studies
National Defence University
United States of America
Biography
Dr.McFate is an expert on grand strategy and war. He is a professor at the National Defense University and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and an adjunct social scientist at the RAND Corporation. He trained Burundi’s Presidential Guard to prevent a genocidal threat in 2004. He also worked on programs in South Sudan and Eastern Europe. From 1992 to 2000 he was an U.S. Army officer, serving as paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. Following this, he was an advisor to Amnesty International on human rights and armed conflict, and also a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, a think tank. In the private sector, McFate was a Vice President at TD International, a political risk consulting firm with offices in Washington, Houston, Jakarta, Singapore and Zurich. He was also a Business Advisor at BearingPoint (now Deloitte Consulting) and an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton. McFate authored The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order.
Research Interest
US National Security Strategy,Grand Strategy Africa,Security Sector Reform,Private Military Companies
