Lieutenant General David J. Julazadeh is a nonresident senior fellow with the Transatlantic Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Previously, he was the deputy chief of staff for capability development at NATO Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia, where he was responsible for developing operational and strategic capability requirements on behalf of thirty-two NATO nations. Additionally, he served as the NATO supreme allied commander transformation’s innovation representative, air domain and space domain cross-functional champion, and champion for NATO’s Command and Control, Cooperative Cyber Defense, and Joint Air Power Competence Centres of Excellence.

Julazadeh entered the US Air Force in 1990 following graduation from Kansas University and commissioning through the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. He served as an F-16 instructor pilot, functional check flight pilot, and flight examiner logging more than 2,500 flight hours and six hundred combat hours during operations Provide Comfort, Deny Flight, Northern Watch, Allied Force, and Freedom’s Sentinel. He also participated in Operation Uphold Democracy while serving as an air liaison officer with the 1st Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment.

Julazadeh served in a number of Major Command, Air Force, NATO, US Central Command, and Office of the Secretary of Defense staff positions. He has commanded at the flight, squadron, and twice at the wing level. Previously, Julazadeh served as chief of staff at the US European Command headquarters at Patch Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany.