Dr. Gregory D. Johnsen is the Associate Director of the Institute for Future Conflict at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is the author of The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia (WW Norton), which has been translated into multiple languages. He has been a Fulbright Fellow in Yemen, a Fulbright-Hays Fellow in Egypt, and a Peace Corps volunteer in Jordan. Johnsen served two years on the Yemen Panel of Experts at the UN Security Council and was the lead writer for the congressionally mandated Syria Study Group in 2019.

Johnsen holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University, as well as master’s degrees from Princeton and the University of Arizona. In 2013, Johnsen was named BuzzFeed’s inaugural Michael Hastings National Security Reporting Fellow, where he won a Dirksen Award from the National Press Foundation and, in collaboration with Radiolab, a Peabody Award. He has testified before Congress and published pieces in a wide range of publications including the New York Times and The Atlantic.