Jonathan Green is a nonresident senior fellow in the Forward Defense program of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He is a co-author on the ReForge Commission, for which he investigates the role of human capital in driving defense industrial base growth. Green also serves as a vice president in Beacon Global Strategies’ Defense Practice.
Prior to joining Beacon, Green spent more than eight years working as an advisor and committee staff member on Capitol Hill, where he helped to develop nine National Defense Authorization Acts and three annual defense appropriations bills. During this time, Green worked on issues ranging from Afghanistan to Ukraine to irregular warfare and information operations. 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), 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 US Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the ranking member, where he supported special investigations and led work on the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization.
Before serving on Capitol Hill, Green worked as a contractor for the Department of Defense from 2013 to 2015, supporting oversight and engagement with federally funded R&D centers and university-affiliated research centers. He also supported Major Defense Acquisition Program information reform efforts.
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.