Michael Sinclair is a nonresident senior fellow in the Forward Defense program of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He currently serves as associate deputy general counsel (intelligence) at the Department of Defense where he covers legal issues related to sensitive space and counter-space activities and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; electromagnetic warfare; geo-spatial intelligence; measurement and signature intelligence, the All-domain Resolution Office, and the foreign materiel program. 

He was associate general counsel (aviation and space) at the Department of the Air Force and is a retired active duty Coast Guard judge advocate with over 25 years of mixed legal and operational experience, including details to the Department of Homeland Security, the National Security Council staff, and as a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

In addition to his Juris Doctor, he holds a Master of Science degree in Emergency and Disaster Management and a Master of Laws in National Security.  Mike is an adjunct professor at George Washington University (GWU) School of Law where he teaches National Security Law, International Law in U.S. Domestic Courts, and Upper Level Writing; is a non-resident scholar at the GWU Space Policy Institute; and is on the editorial board at Dauntless Space.