“Trump’s Foreign Policy in the Era of Great-Power Competition”
Alexander B. Gray
CEO, American Global Strategies LLC
Alexander B. Gray is the Chief Executive Officer of American Global Strategies LLC, an
international strategic advisory firm that he co-founded with former National Security Advisor
Robert C. O’Brien. Mr. Gray’s wide-ranging practice includes the defense, aerospace, maritime,
and technology sectors.
During the first Trump Administration, Mr. Gray served as Deputy Assistant to the President and
Chief of Staff of the White House National Security Council (NSC), where he directed the daily
operations of the National Security Advisor’s immediate office, as well as the budget, personnel,
and security functions of the NSC.
Previously, he served in the White House as Special Assistant to the President for the Defense
Industrial Base at the National Economic Council (NEC), the principal Executive Office of the
President (EOP) official responsible for matters impacting the defense and manufacturing
industrial base, and as the first-ever Director for Oceania and Indo-Pacific Security at the NSC.
Mr. Gray is a Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC); a Senior
Nonresident Fellow at the Global Taiwan Institute (GTI); a member of the Nixon Seminar on
Conservative Realism and National Security, He wasa Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute
for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR) in Taipei, Taiwan and currently serves as
Chairman of the Oklahoma China Readiness Working Group, convened by the Oklahoma
Council on Public Affairs (OCPA).
His writings have appared in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, The Washington Times,
and numerous other journals. A native Oklahoman, he attended Oklahoma State University and
received a B.A. from the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington
University.