Iskander Rehman is a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center’s Geostrategy Initiative, where he focuses on net assessment, grand strategy and defense issues. Over the course of his career, he has worked at a number of different think tanks and research centers. Most recently, he was a senior political scientist at RAND. Prior to joining RAND, he was senior fellow for strategic studies at the American Foreign Policy Council and a visiting fellow at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Dr. Rehman has also held fellowships at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. A tri-national citizen, Rehman has lived in France, India and the United Kingdom and is the founder of the Rochambeau Dialogue, a Franco-US Track 1.5 dialogue on defense issues that took place every year in Newport, RI, from 2018 to 2021.
He is the author of Planning for Protraction: A Historically Informed Approach to Great Power War and Sino-U.S. Competition and Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy under Tiberius. He holds a PhD, with distinction, from the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) in Paris.