Dr. Matthew Kroenig is the vice president and senior director of the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. In 2022, he was appointed by the US Congress as a Republican commissioner on the bipartisan Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. He previously served in the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. Kroenig is also a tenured professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University. He received the Pentagon's Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Heritage Foundation's Freedom and Opportunity's Academic Prize. A 2019 study ranked him one of the top twenty-five most cited political scientists of his generation. He is the author or editor of seven books, including The Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the U.S. and China. His commentary has appeared in every major media outlet. He has held fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard University, and Stanford University. He holds an MA and PhD in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.