Owen Graham focuses on missile defense, arms control, international energy issues and the nations of Russia and Eurasia, Iran and Turkey as research and operations coordinator for national security and foreign policy at The Heritage Foundation.
Graham joined Heritage’s Davis Institute for International Studies as a research assistant in April 2007 after interning at the think tank. He has deepened his research with travel to Russia, Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, Lithuania, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
Graham’s commentary has appeared in The Washington Times and The Wall Street Journal’s European edition as well as such public affairs websites National Review Online, Daily Caller and Big Peace. He is co-author of Global Perspectives on Oil and Security, published by the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies in 2007.
The Washington-based Foreign Policy Initiative named Graham as one of 18 Future Leaders in Foreign Policy for 2010-2011. In 2009, he was selected for a Manfred Wörner fellowship by the German Marshall Fund and the Armed Forces Office of the German Defense Ministry.
A native of Virginia, Graham holds a master of arts degree in international politics from American University, where he also received a bachelor of arts degree in international studies. He grew up in McLean, Va., and currently resides in Washington, D.C.