Adam S. Lovinger currently serves as vice president for strategic affairs at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington D.C.-based think-and-do tank. In 2017 he was senior director for strategic assessments at the U.S. National Security Council (NSC). From 2006 to 2017 he provided direct support on long-term U.S. national security strategy to the secretary of defense from the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA). Lovinger has served as adjunct professor in three Georgetown University graduate schools. He also guest lectured on the emerging U.S.-China long-term strategic competition, U.S. grand strategy formation, and net assessment at the Yale University Superpowers of Influence series, the German Council on Foreign Relations, the Oxford University Changing Character of War series, the Permanent Joint Headquarters Command of the British Armed Forces, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung think tank, the European Commission, and the United Services Institute of India. He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Georgetown Law School.