Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning
Dr. Thomas G. Mahnken is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He is also a Senior Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Director of the Advanced Strategy Program at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies. From 2006 to 2009, he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning.