Program Manager, Europe

Dr Thomas Young is responsible for the development and management of defense planning and management assistance projects throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Some of the key reform projects he has managed include the oversight of comprehensive defense planning reform projects in Estonia (2000-2002), Ukraine (2003-present), Moldova (2004-2008), and Bulgaria (2008-present). He developed and executed the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Defense Institution Building survey and road-map development process from 2008-2009. Dr Young also holds the position of Staff Consultant at the RAND Corporation (Santa Monica) where he works on teams examining national defense and political-military issues. Prior to taking these positions in March 2000, he was a Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College.

Dr Young received his Ph.D. and Certificat des Etudes supérieurs in international economics and policy from the Institut univérsitaire de Hautes Etudes internationales, Université de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland), is a 1990 graduate of the U.S. Army War College (Carlisle Barracks, PA) and holds an M.A. with Great Distinction from the School of Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University (Bologna / Washington, DC).

Since 1989, he has been the North American editor of Small Wars and Insurgencies (London) and is on the editorial board of Defense and Security Analysis (Lancaster, UK).

His foreign languages are French, Italian, and German.