Mark Jacobson

Mark Jacobson is currently an Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a non-resident Senior Fellow at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy. As a public servant in the Department of Defense, at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and on Capitol Hill, he has worked on some of the most complex and politically sensitive national security issues facing the United States. His most recent appointments at the Pentagon were as a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense and Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy. Previously he served in Kabul, Afghanistan as the Deputy NATO Representative and Director of International Affairs at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and in these roles advised Generals David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal on the international political dynamics of the mission. Jacobson’s military service includes time as both an Army and Navy reservist including mobiliz