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Zachary M. Hosford

Zachary Hosford

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Research Associate

Zachary Hosford is a Research Associate at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).  He previously served as both the Executive Assistant and the Special Assistant to the two co-founders of the organization, Kurt Campbell and Michèle Flournoy, as well as the Special Assistant to the current CEO, Nathaniel Fick.

His research at CNAS centers on U.S. and East Asian defense issues, including acquisition and nuclear weapons policy. Some of his recent work has focused on China’s naval modernization, the U.S.-China nuclear relationship, South Korean defense capabilities and priorities, U.S. policy regarding North Korean nuclear activities, and Aum Shinrikyo’s chemical and biological weapons programs. He also serves as the coordinator for CNAS’s Next Generation National Security Leaders program, aimed at identifying and assembling a diverse and bipartisan group of top young analysts and practitioners to think creatively about U.S. national security issues.

Prior to joining CNAS, Hosford worked as a research intern at the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC and – through a program organized by George Mason University – at the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Hosford is currently enrolled in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and has completed additional graduate coursework in security studies at the University of Maryland. He earned his B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA with a major in Scientific and Philosophical Studies of the Mind and a minor in Astronomy.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Asia-Pacific Security
  • Defense Acquisition in a Global Economy
  • Next Generation National Security Leaders Program
  • Nuclear Negotiations in North Korea

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