Adam Gallagher is a foreign policy editor, writer, and analyst, focusing on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and Asia, and U.S. grand strategy in the multipolar world. Most recently, he was the editor-in-chief at the U.S. Institute of Peace and has also been an editor at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems. He was a 2025 strategic leaders fellow at the John Quincy Adams Society.

Adam’s writing and analysis has been published in the Washington Post, Newsweek, The Hill, The Diplomat, The American Prospect, The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, World Politics Review, The National Interest, Real Clear World, The Detroit News, and by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Urban History Association, among others.

He has been an accredited election observer in Tunisia (2014), Myanmar (2015), and Liberia (2017) and was a recipient of the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship.

Adam holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in political science and philosophy from Ohio Northern University and a master’s degree in international relations from George Mason University.