Lindsey Ford
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Indo-Pacific Security Program
Lindsey W. Ford is a leading expert on Indo-Pacific security issues with two decades of experience across senior roles in government and the policy community. She served as the special assistant to the president and senior director for South Asia at the National Security Council from 2024–2025, and the deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia from 2021–2024. In these roles, she was instrumental in expanding Indo-Pacific defense industrial cooperation and established the Defense Department’s first Indo-Pacific defense innovation initiatives, including a U.S.-India defense incubator and a Quad maritime technology program. Ford also oversaw the Department of Defense’s maritime policy and capacity-building programs in the South China Sea and led early efforts to expand unmanned technology cooperation with Southeast Asian partners.
Ford is currently a vice president at Beacon Global Strategies, where she advises clients on allied industrial strategies
Recent Publications & News
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Sustaining the Future of Indo-Pacific Defense Strategy
Commentary
By Lindsey Ford
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Going Global: The Future of the U.S.-South Korea Alliance
By Lindsey Ford
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
No Illusions: Regaining the Strategic Initiative with North KoreaBy Abraham M. Denmark, Lindsey Ford, Michael J Zubrow, Nirav Patel & Zachary Hosford
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
U.S.-DPRK Nuclear Negotiations: A Survey of the Policy LiteratureBy Lindsey Ford, Michael J Zubrow & Zachary Hosford
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The United States and the Asia-Pacific Region: Security Strategy for the Obama Administration
By Lindsey Ford & Nirav Patel
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