Evan Montgomery is Vice President for Research and Studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
Over nearly two decades at CSBA, Dr. Montgomery has written dozens of monographs, reports, articles, and chapters on a wide range of defense policy issues. In 2016-2017, while on leave from CSBA, he served as Special Advisor to the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where he focused on defense innovation and nuclear modernization. He also teaches a graduate course on military effectiveness in the security studies program at Georgetown University.
Dr. Montgomery is the author of numerous CSBA reports, most recently Relook Playbook: Defense Budgeting Insights from a CSBA Rebalancing Exercise (with Travis Sharp and Casey Nicastro) and Speeding Toward Instability? Hypersonic Weapons and the Risks of Nuclear Use (with Toshi Yoshihara). His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, International Security, Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, The Washington Quarterly, Survival, and War on the Rocks, among other academic and policy outlets. His book, In the Hegemon’s Shadow: Leading States and the Rise of Regional Powers, was published by Cornell University Press.
Dr. Montgomery graduated summa cum laude from Villanova University and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He is a past recipient of the Smith Richardson Foundation Strategy and Policy Fellowship, the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, and the Department of Defense Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award.
Education
B.A. in Political Science and Sociology (summa cum laude)
Villanova University
M.A. and Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs
University of Virginia
