Abigail Rudolph is an assistant director in the Forward Defense program of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She contributes to the program’s defense industry and innovation portfolio, focusing on emerging technology and defense industrial base policy. Her research spans US shipbuilding in the Great Lakes Region, allied defense industrial integration, and capacity building among allies in the context of the war in Ukraine.
Previously, Rudolph interned with the Cleveland Council on World Affairs where she contributed to its foreign policy forums and committees on foreign relations. As an undergraduate, she co-authored an op-ed detailing net-zero carbon emissions pathways for Ohioans, and completed her senior thesis on an assessment of, and recommendations for bolstering, NATO’s China policy.
She graduated with honors from Baldwin Wallace University, earning a BA in national security with a minor in sustainability.