Ben Wolfson is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Geotech Center, specializing in biotechnology and national security. He is a subject matter expert on the use of biomanufacturing to secure supply chains and increase economic and national security.

Wolfson is a former science and technology policy fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where he served at the Department of Defense Basic Research Office. In his fellowship, he focused on research security and funding basic research in support of Department of Defense priorities. Wolfson led the Basic Research Office’s development of equitable research security policy in response to National Security Presidential Memorandum–33 and led multiple workshops exploring the impacts that critical technologies, including biotechnology and microelectronics, could have on the Department of Defense.

Previously, Wolfson was a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Cancer Institute Center for Immuno-Oncology, where he led studies exploring how standard-of-care cancer treatments sensitize tumors to novel immunotherapies, resulting in improved patient outcomes. Wolfson is also editor-in-chief of the nonprofit Scientists and Engineers Acting Locally and former assistant-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Science Policy and Governance. He holds a PhD in molecular medicine from the University of Maryland Baltimore and holds a BS in cellular and molecular biology from Tulane University.