Jonathan Green is a nonresident senior fellow at the GeoStrategy Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He has over a decade of experience working on geopolitical and defense issues in Washington, DC, including as a senior advisor and committee staff member on Capitol Hill and working for the Department of Defense. He works with private sector clients to provide strategic guidance on US defense and international security issues to help them navigate complex geopolitical matters and increase their competitiveness.
Most recently, Green served as the defense policy advisor to US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), leading her defense and intelligence work on the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense. Previously, he served as national security advisor to US Representative Jason Crow (D-CO-6), serving as his designee to the House Armed Services Committee and leading the congressman’s work on defense, intelligence, foreign policy, civil space, and veterans affairs matters. From 2015 to 2019, Green served as special assistant on the Senate Armed Services Committee under Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI), where he supported special investigations and led oversight of the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization.
During his time on Capitol Hill, Green worked at the forefront of high-profile international security issues, ranging from Afghanistan to Ukraine, and on functional issues such as irregular warfare and information operations. He has extensive experience developing and implementing strategies for senior elected officials, bringing together the executive and legislative branches with industry and academia on pressing national security matters. Over the course of his time on the Hill, Green worked to develop nine National Defense Authorization Act bills and three annual defense appropriations bills.
Before serving on Capitol Hill, Green worked as a contractor for the Department of Defense within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics from 2013 to 2015, supporting oversight of and engagement with Federally Funded Research and Development Centers and University Affiliated Research Centers. He also supported Major Defense Acquisition Program information reform efforts to better leverage completed studies to expedite program timelines. He served as an intern on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and for then US Senator John Kerry (D-MA).
Green earned a Master of Public Policy, with an emphasis in National Security Policy, from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He also attended the University of Delaware, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts, with a concentration in US foreign policy, a specialization in the Middle East and North Africa, and a minor in Islamic studies with Arabic.
