Anna M. Dowd is a senior international/defense researcher at RAND, where she brings more than two decades of experience combining strategic policy development with high-impact analysis. Her research examines how the United States and its allies and partners confront the military, strategic, and technological challenges shaping national and global security. She has led, co-led, and contributed to studies on alliance management and burden-sharing, deterrence, escalation dynamics, strategic stability, force posture, transatlantic security, great power competition, and lessons from the Russo-Ukraine war.
Before joining RAND, Dowd held senior positions across NATO and European institutions. Most recently, she served as Principal Officer at the NATO Communications and Information Agency in Brussels, advising senior NATO leadership and allied governments on the policy, strategy, and capabilities driving NATO's strategic adaptation. She previously served at the European Union Institute for Security Studies, the European Defence Agency, and the Polish Ministry of National Defence.
Dowd is also a non-resident fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She holds a master's degree in international relations from the Warsaw School of Economics and a joint master's degree in European studies from the Warsaw School of Economics and Sciences Po Paris. She is a graduate of the NATO Executive Development Programme and ESCP London Business School.
M.A. in intl relations & economics, Warsaw School of Economics; M.A. in European Affairs, Warsaw School of Economics and Institute d’ Études Politiques (SciencePo)
French; Polish
Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
