Steven Kosiak is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and consults on a range of national security and budgeting issues. He is also a senior adjunct faculty member at American University’s School of International Service and a nonresident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
He served for 5 1/2 years as the Office of Management and Budget’s associate director for defense and international affairs, the senior White House official for national security and foreign policy budgeting. From 1996 to 2009, Kosiak was vice president for budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. In addition, from 2000 to 2008 he served as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program.
In recent years, much of his work has focused on the U.S.-Chinese military competition, as well as on U.S. defense and international affairs spending. While at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, he authored reports and briefing papers concerning everything from weapons modernization, space programs, force structure, readiness, and military compensation, to the cost of military operations and the implications for national security spending of overall federal budget trends and priorities.
Kosiak holds a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center (1998), an MPA from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (1986), and a B.A. in history and political science from the University of Minnesota (1982).