Expert Bio

Austin Long is a senior nuclear fellow at MIT's Center for Nuclear Security Policy and a defense fellow at Fuse Energy. Previously he was the Joint Staff J5 deputy director, for strategic stability. In that role, he was responsible for the formulation of Joint Staff positions and recommendations regarding strategy, plans and policy for strategic deterrence, space, cyberspace, electromagnetic spectrum operations, nuclear, missile defense, countering weapons of mass destruction, subsea and seabed warfare, arms control, and other international negotiations. 

Previously, he was vice deputy director for strategic stability. Prior to joining the Joint Staff, Long was a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and an associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International Public Affairs. Dr. Long received his B.S. from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.