Alan W. Dowd
Senior Fellow, defence and security research, the Fraser Institute.
Contributor Biography
Mr. Dowd is a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute, conducting research into defence and security, and the Senior Editor of Fraser am.eri.ca. He is a contributing editor with both The American Legion Magazine and World Politics Review. His writing also has appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Military Officer, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Times, The Washington Examiner, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The American Enterprise, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, American Enterprise Online, National Review Online, and Weekly Standard Online, among others.
Before joining the Fraser Institute, he was a senior fellow with the Sagamore Institute and, earlier, director of the Hudson Institute’s corporate headquarters. He has served as director of constituent services for a U.S. congressman and adjunct professor at Butler University. He holds a BA with high honors in political science from Butler University and an MA in philanthropic studies from Indiana University.