Derek Grossman

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Indo-Pacific Security Program

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Derek Grossman is an adjunct senior fellow with the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He is also a professor of the practice of political science and international relations at the University of Southern California as well as founder and chief analyst of Indo-Pacific Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm examining the geopolitics of the region.

Grossman is a former senior defense analyst at RAND and a former professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. Before RAND, he served over a decade in the U.S. intelligence community (IC), where he served as the daily intelligence briefer to the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and to the assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs. Grossman wrote an award-winning paper for the IC’s Galileo Competition, which solicits innovative ideas to optimize IC enterprise management practices. Prior to the DIA, Grossman served at the National Security Agency (NSA). He also worked at the Central Intelligence Agency on the President’s Daily Brief staff.

Grossman is widely quoted regionally and globally. He has interviewed with well-known outlets including the BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Grossman has published dozens of commentaries and journal articles, primarily for Asia Policy, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and Nikkei Asia.

Grossman holds an MA from Georgetown University in U.S. national security policy and a BA from the University of Michigan in political science and Asian studies.