Dr. Philip Potter is a professor of politics and the founding director of both the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy’s National Security Policy Center (NSPC) and the University of Virginia’s National Security Data and Policy Institute (NSDPI), UVA’s sixth university-level institute.Dr. Potter’s decades of research have focused on US foreign policy, military affairs, data analysis, and international security. He has published dozens of articles, policy papers, and government reports on these topics as well as two books, and serves as a university expert for the Intelligence Community and a senior advisor in the Department of Defense. An active voice in both academia and government on national security research and policy, Professor Potter launched the NSDPI in 2024 to build collaborative networks of experts and practitioners across government, industry, and academia to address the country’s most pressing national security challenges.
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