Richard Outzen

Rich Outzen, PhD, is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council IN Türkiye and a geopolitical analyst and consultant currently serving private sector clients as Dragoman LLC. From 2016 to 2021, Outzen served in the US Department of State as both a military and civilian advisor, working in the Policy Planning Office and later the Office of the Special Representative for Syria. From 2013 to 2016, he was a member of the National Defense University (NDU) and Institute for National Security Studies faculty. He served as the US defense attaché in Kabul from 2014 to 2015. He has researched and published extensively on matters of policy and strategy, with a focus on the greater Middle East and Central Asia.