{"id":33809,"date":"2026-01-08T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tdcenter.org\/?page_id=33809"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:17:39","slug":"john-drennan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tdcenter.org\/de\/john-drennan\/","title":{"rendered":"John Drennan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"33809\" class=\"elementor elementor-33809\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d827834 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d827834\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column 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Non-Resident Fellow at the Transatlantic Dialogue Center<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, supporting TDC research and initiatives focused on U.S.-EU-Ukraine defense and security issues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is a <\/span><b>Senior Policy Analyst at RAND Corporation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where he conducts research on U.S. defense policy, European security, and nuclear strategy and arms control.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From May 2024-May 2025 he was detailed to the <\/span><b>U.S. Department of Defense <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">via the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA), serving in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy as a Ukraine Country Director.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has an MA in Strategic Studies and International Economics from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Johns Hopkins-School of Advanced International 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